Exhibition. Galleri CFF
Ida Taavitsainen: Within Four Walls
20260206 - 20260321
When Ida Taavitsainen was expecting her second child, she decided to start documenting her family’s life with an Instax camera. The pictures take physical form immediately and multiply as the children grow.
Each photograph is dated, and the artist has written diary entries alongside the images. Limitations create freedom, and Ida Taavitsainen decided to only photograph in the family’s home after her son’s birth. The work began out of a need to process what happened during the day and to depict the great love and joy of everyday life, as well as the feeling of confinement that a new phase in life can entail. The exhibition presents over a hundred images taken in recent years. Together, they create both a general story about parenthood and a personal depiction of a growing family in Helsinki.
The exhibition is a collaboration with Tempo Documentary Festival and has received support from the Swedish-Finnish Cultural Foundation.
