Joonas Ahlava:
The Growing Garden installation on display at Gallery G12 consists of minimalist textured wood sculptures and a Japanese-style stone garden. They combine Japanese, Western and Scandinavian symbolism.
The surface texture of the works is created based on computer logic and the artist’s intuition.
They consist of repetitions of simple patterns and interaction between layers, which can be from a few to hundreds, depending on the work. It is a process of complexity that reflects the development of the human mind. The works are based on the Thought Patterns series of works, which explored the human learning process, getting stuck in patterns and possible breakthroughs of the mind through abstract photography.
The Growing Garden exhibition continues on the same topic, exploring the growth of an individual and his relationship with society and the surrounding world from a holistic perspective. Individual wood carvings can be seen to symbolize the individual and his complexity and growth. The Japanese stone garden, on the other hand, forms an element that connects the sculptures. The installation aims to examine the relationship between the individual and the community and show them as a whole and as parts of each other.
The theme of the entire exhibition is related to the apparent development of the human species in a wider context and is the artist’s minimalist conceptual comment on the discussion of development and growth.
