The Pet Show #1 阿克塞利·瓦尔穆宁 Akseli Valmunen

阿克塞利·瓦尔穆宁

生于1987年，芬兰

在韩国，有一只名叫奎因的警用炸弹犬，它几乎能够嗅出一切。当有一名小女孩在济州岛失踪时，警方动用了数千人和众多警犬搜寻了一个月，却一无所获。而当炸弹犬奎因被带来尝试搜索时，失踪的尸体在二十分钟内就被找到了。不久之后，奎因被送往实验室，克隆成更多超级有超级天赋的警犬供官员使用。这个实验室是一个非营利机构，得到韩国政府的支持，不仅用于研究和官方使用，还对公众开放。只需支付十万美元，你就可以克隆一个与你心爱的、或许年老且濒临死亡的宠物一模一样复制出来的新宠物。实验室表示，虽然现在克隆人类还为时尚早，但这项技术已经存在。《同样的新宠物》是一个关于寻找可能本不该被发现的东西的故事，也是关于过于好奇的行为，以及关于扮演上帝的故事。

2016年，瓦尔穆宁被评为北欧年度青年摄影师，并在Fotografiska斯德哥尔摩馆举办了个展。

未命名作品，来自《同样的新宠物》系列，2016年©阿克塞利·瓦尔穆宁

Akseli Valmunen

B. 1987, Finland

In South Korea there was a police bomb dog named Quinn, who could smell his way to almost everything. When a young girl disappeared on the island of Jeju, police tried to find her with thousands of people and many dogs for a month without any results. When bomb dog Quinn was brought in for a try, the missing body was found within twenty minutes. Short thereafter, Quinn was sent to the laboratory to be cloned into more super talented dogs for the officials.

The laboratory is a non-profit institute supported by the South Korean government, and it’s not reserved for research or official use only. For 100,000 USD you can buy an identical clone of your beloved, perhaps old and dying pet. The laboratory says it is yet too early to clone a human, but that the technology exists. The Same New Pet is a story of looking for something that is perhaps not supposed to be found. About the act of being too curious and about playing God.

In 2016, Valmunen was awarded as the Young Nordic Photographer of the Year, which led him a solo exhibition at Fotografiska in Stockholm.