Jorma Puranen’s new photo series L’étang qui se souvenait de tout (The Pond That Remembered All) is on view at Laukko Manor from 10 June until 16 August 2026. The series was born in 2023, during a residency at the Fondation Claude Monet in Giverny, France. During that time Puranen explored and photographed the changing moods and fleeting light of the Giverny garden, which also inspired Claude Monet’s (1840–1926) late work. The line between photography and painting blurs in the dreamlike works shot with long exposure times. Puranen’s mysterious views are not direct landscape images, but reflections photographed from the glossy surface of a black lacquered panel – reminiscent of a ‘Claude glass’, popular with travellers of the past. The distorted, shimmering surfaces of Puranen’s works remind the viewer of Monet’s struggle with cataracts and impaired vision. The Pond That Remembered All is a meditative dialogue that travels through time, where the past flickers through reflections and memory becomes a lens of its own.

Image: Jorma Puranen, The Pond That Remembered All 12, 2024, pigment print, 80 x 61,5 cm, ed. 6