A(r)mor
Throughout our lives, we seek connection – with other people, with places, with nature, and with our own bodies. The need to belong, to be seen, and to be accepted seems fundamental. Yet the artist observes a growing tendency to avoid intimacy, particularly the kind that offers no immediate response and instead requires time, attention, and patience.
For this reason, she finds it important not to regard solitude as an entirely negative state. To some extent, it is inevitable, as our experience always remains partly inaccessible to others. “We can talk, touch, and live together, yet no one will ever see the world entirely through our eyes. There is always a small inner space that another person cannot occupy. To me, this inaccessible part feels special – perhaps even sacred.”
Photography entered the artist’s life in childhood. As she continued to return to it over the years, Luisa Greta Vilo began to question what truly inspires the act of taking photographs. For her, photography is a way of noticing and observing what might otherwise pass unseen. At the same time, it offers a way of showing others not the world itself, but her relationship with it – the way it reveals itself to her at a particular moment.
In this sense, photography bridges distance not by eliminating solitude, but by allowing it to be shared. The image becomes a kind of meeting place: one person may recognise their own experience within it, while for another it may reveal something they had never noticed before.
The A(r)mor project emerged from this tension between intimacy and distance. Within it, love and trust are understood not as states that simply exist, but as relationships that must be built – with another person, with the world, and with oneself.