Saku Paasilahti has been working as an art photographer since 1990. The main subjects of his early works were our world, history and food. This photographer confronted the past with our present in a very abstract and fictitious way. His photos bear several intradependent/connected layers of meaning which reveal hidden and unexpected symbolism in different ways. Paasilahti uses experimental techniques of photography in majority of his projects. They represent an important part of his researches in terms of concept and modus operandi.
25 Paasilahti’s original photographs from his series/projects Theatro Anatomico and Gourmet Fiction will be presented at an exhibition in the Artget Gallery, the Belgrade Cultural Centre, from 28th August till 20th September.

Saku Paasilahti (Helsinki, Finland, 1967) holds his MA degree in photography from the University of Art and Design in Helsinki (1995). He has presented his works at numerous solo and group exhibition in his homeland and throughout Europe. He has three books about his projects published so far.

Ajla Selenic, text in the catalogue of the exhibition

Seldom do I use the words ‘magic’, ‘wonderful’, ‘magical’ in order to avoid being pathetic.
But, I have to use some of the “forbidden words” in my vocabulary, in spite of my fears, in order to describe an extraordinary place in Austria. There is a castle at the estate of Schrattenberg, west from the mountain village of St. Lorenzen, near Scheifling. Today, it is a ruin surrounded by the fortification walls whose towers are still in good shape. A group of Austrian artists has done restoration works on its additional buildings with help of the Austrian Ministry of Culture. Since some rooms lost their original use a long time ago, they have been adapted and turned into exhibition venues, a concert hall, workshops, music studios, bedrooms and pleasant salons. Diverse exhibition activity of the aforementioned group of artists enables them to travel around the world and meet different types of excellent and interesting fellow artists whom the Austrian artists invite to stay and work as their guests at Stemberg for a month. An exhibition is prepared during the last days of the conference. A series of concerts, performances, video projections begin.
I have visited this magic place four times in the last fifteen years. I have met some extraordinary artists and become a friend of many incredible people. One of them is here now, with his works. He is a Finish artist and photographer with superb sense of perception and crystal clear ideas and performance – Saku Paasilahti.

By Vladimir Perić