Mara Kirchberg and Milka Luhtaniemi

The installations and sculptures of Mara Kirchberg reference moments in which systems break down or are temporarily out of order; she has worked with synthetic membranes and PVC hoses traversed by dysfunctional car fluids composing bodies that seem to breathe, leak and co-mingle like biological bodies. Kirchberg’s works in the exhibition are fragments of a larger body of work living off residues from its animate state, sitting in silence and resting before reconnecting to the cycle.

The text works of Milka Luhtaniemi speak to the precarious nature of day and night cycles, folding together the ideas of day and night with the tangible growth cycles of plant life and fungi, bridging the gap between what could be understood as the divide between day (reason) and night (the body). Luhtaniemi will show two works in the exhibition: one a printed textile work and the other a publication called Päiväkirja (The Book of Days). The graphic design of the publication is by Aliisa Perikangas.