Sara Manninen
Dusk
12 February–8 March 2026
In Sara Manninen’s exhibition Dusk, the works waver at the edge of twilight. Memories, dreamlike visions, and physical reality merge and create new worlds where familiarity blends with a sense of strangeness. The exhibition features photograph-based printmaking works, hand-printed on paper.
The visual worlds of the works refer to real events, but it is impossible to see beyond them. The actual moments are unreachable, yet imaginable. The exhibition depicts memories as combinations of memory traces and imagination, as stories to which an individual’s identity is linked. Printmaking and photography serve as recorders of presence, bringing something from the past to the present in an eerie manner.
The works have been created using a photopolymer technique, which allows a photograph to be transferred onto a printing plate and then hand-printed on paper. As her starting point, Manninen has used her own photographs as well as family album photographs taken by different people at different times, for example in the surroundings of her ancestral home. Different eras are blended together in the works, creating views that fall somewhere between imaginary and real.
Sara Manninen (b. 1996, Kangasniemi) is a visual artist and printmaker based in Turku, working with photograph-based printmaking methods. Themes of temporality, shared and subjective memory, and liminal spaces recur in her work. She is fascinated by the tension between the imaginary and physical reality. Craftsmanship and experimental technical methods serve as the key foundations of her artistic work.
Thank you
Arts Promotion Center Finland
Contact details
saramanninen (a) protonmail.com
