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In this work Puranen uses satellite images and aerial views of the Arctic vistas. The role of archives, dreams, memories and time are deployed to create transient and accidental visual forms, which aim to encapsulate multiple, interwoven temporalities. In his photographs the found visual material reappears as though from a lost (or future) world, becoming manifest in a ghost form. Through experiences of travel and borderland Puranen wishes to create a matrix of fact and fiction, a field of fantasy and geographical imagination.

The title They could hear a faraway thunder comes from a poem of …