Our relationship with old family photos and photo albums is very emotional. When we browse through old photos, dear and precious memories come to mind, but sometimes also painful questions. Especially when family history contains difficult and silent issues, photographs evoke a variety of conflicting emotions. Photographs have a special power to energize our minds. They can linger in the mind as if demanding an answer.

The three artists in Emotional Encounters, curated by Elina Heikka, have in common that an essential part of their projects are old family photos they have found. Photographs and archives have motivated the artists, and they are a substantive part of their work series. The artists in the exhibition are Aline Motta, Sofia Yala and Yassmin Forte, whose families’ pasts are burdened in many ways by Portuguese colonialism in Brazil, Angola and Mozambique.

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