Book launch: Katja Tähjä – Letters from a Land That Does Not Exist
Welcome to a Book Launch!
On Thursday 28 August from 5 to 7pm, we will celebrate the launch of Katja Tähjä’s new book Letters from a Land That Does Not Exist at the Photographic Gallery Hippolyte. At the same time, the artist’s exhibition of the same title will be on view for its final week.
Join us for a relaxed evening with photobooks and photographic art, accompanied by light refreshments. The book will be available at a special launch price during the event.
Warmly welcome!
Letters from a Land That Does Not Exist explores memory, identity, and the intergenerational effects of war and conflict on both individuals and nations, as seen through the experiences of a family who left Iraq.
The extended family lives around the world in diaspora, and the youngest generation has never visited their parents’ homeland. For some, Iraq is a distant and frightening place, while others long for it—or for a time that no longer exists. Iraq has undergone such vast and violent changes in recent decades that those who left at different times each left behind a different country. The family’s memories and stories form fragments that merge with personal imaginings, the surrounding society’s perspectives, and the current living environment. What emerges is a land that does not exist.
Images: Katja Tähjä ja Athra Al-Imanin ja Muhanad Al-Nawasin kotialbumi
Texts: Katja Tähjä
Yrjönkatu 8-10, sisäpiha, 00120 HelsinkiFree entrance