Tero Puha was an artist in residence at TYPA from September to November 2025. During his three-month residency, he focused on the artist’s book Innocence ’93, a project that returns to drawings originally made in 1993 and reworks them through contemporary bookmaking, risograph printing, and installation.
Puha’s practice moves between photography, drawing, film, and artist publications, often exploring memory, the body, and personal archives. At TYPA, the residency offered time to slow down and work materially: printing, binding, revising structures, and allowing the book to take its final form through hands-on processes.
Alongside the book project, Puha also began preparations for a new photogravure portfolio, developing images, formats, and material solutions for a future edition. This phase focused on testing scale, paper, and tonal qualities, laying the groundwork for a portfolio that will be realized after the residency as a separate, editioned work.
Innocence ’93 exists both as a book and as an exhibition, where the drawings unfold gradually in space. The exhibition opening included a performative unveiling of the works, revealing them one by one during the event and emphasizing time, anticipation, and shared presence as part of the experience.
Puha describes the residency as an important pause within a long artistic trajectory — a space to concentrate, reflect, and let the work mature without urgency. The unique atmosphere at TYPA, its printmaking facilities, and the exchange with other artists and staff supported a deeply focused working period.
“I’m grateful for the time at TYPA — for the calm, the material thinking, the conversations, and the sense of continuity between making, showing, and reflecting. The residency allowed the work to arrive where it needed to be.”
You can find more information about Tero Puha and his work at www.teropuha.com and on Instagram @teropuha.
Tero’s residency was supported by ther Nordic-Baltic Mobility Programme for Culture.