PEDER JANSSON: THE BIAS SERIES
www.pederjansson.com 

10.3 – 21.3 2004

Galleria Huuto • Laivurinkatu 43  (Viskulma) • FIN-00150 Helsinki 
+358.41.579.4699 • www.galleriahuuto.net • info@gallerihuuto.net



The Bias Series is a photo and audio exhibition on the theme of visual and auditory divergences and distortions. 

A lot of times, it is hard to tell exactly what it is in an image that makes one think it is not genuine. It is almost just
as hard to point out the element in an image that reveals its actual nature. If something seems to have a dubious
character in an image, “one usually feels so instinctively”, that it is just the way it is. The reason for we, in many
cases, cannot tell what it is in an image that “doesn’t make sense”, is most often due to our insufficient apprehension
capacity. A photograph of a space with somewhat erroneous proportions will probably cast suspicion upon for
being a manipulated photograph in some way. However, sometimes it is not always like that. There are, for instance,
many architects that have experimented with the form possibilities of the architectonic space, as well as there are
many photographers that are unwilling to edit their images digitally.

Within audio art, the development regarding distorted sounds and timbres has progressed much further than
within visual art. But is there, for instance, such a thing as, considered in a physical way, “negative” sound, and if
that is the case, is it apprehensible? The audio work, Neumes is a suggestion on how sound might appear when it
is turned inside out. 

The photographs in the exhibition have been shot with a Mamiya 645. None of the images have been edited digitally
or been manipulated in any other way. The audio works have both been edited digitally.

Sven-Olov Wallenstein (Editor-in-Chief of Site Magazine, Stockholm) contributes with the text Image, Sound, and Space. 

 
At the opening, Eero Ijavoinen’s performance, “The Flight of the White-Tailed Eagle” takes place at 18.00
– pseudo-shamanistic phenomena in our culture.


Thanks to: Anne-Louise Bosmans, Sven-Olov Wallenstein (Site Magazine), Erik Nilausen at Olgas Lyst, Copenhagen,
Kaarina Ormio, all at Galleria Huuto, Sleipnir/NIFCA and Staffans Bilder.