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Sanni Saari ”23 Possible Ends of a Firefly”

Open curtains, broken rails. A small, fragile, hovering dot. The dots become visible like fireflies. In the middle of everything, the beauty of consciousness, a silver wattle with its leaves persistently reaching into the air. I ask all observers to pay attention to them, their far-reaching mysterious glow. The plants…
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Vesa Hjort ”Of Light and Lightness”

The landscape paintings in the “Of light and lightness” exhibition deal with the area between the external and internal, visible and invisible world. Serving as the structural spine of the works, the landscape reflects what is going on in the internal world.
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Okku Nuutilainen ”Parallel”

My video work Parallel is on display at Galleria Huuto in March 2021. It is an exploration into the nature of self and the desire to escape one’s own reality. By manipulating the video and putting myself in another person’s position, I try to see behind my own face.
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Kaisa Huotari ”Sources”

In the paintings featured in this exhibition, I combine abstract forms with figurative images in a collage-like manner on both canvas and gallery structures. The naturalistically constructed images have been modified, broken and worn by the artist, in the same way as humans change the environment in their hands. They…
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Päivi Allonen ”It May Cover You too”

My works deal with the themes of presence and absence. I fix pieces of fabric and paper to a painting to hide it from people’s eyes, to protect something that exists and to enable secrets. As the work spreads beyond the traditional image area, I shift attention from the hidden…
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Kira Leskinen ”Meledo”

I work with scanography, abstract images created mainly using a scanner. I use flatbed scanners and a smartphone scanning app. In my work process, I combine the scanning technique with paper cutting, three-dimensional paper collages, light and movement. For me, paper is a raw material during planning, but my works…
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Eero Yrjölä (reprise)

I had theme music composed for me. My music is a spell to break the patriarchal curse.
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Elli Terho A Song About Love

Out of something painful emerged a note. The notes formed an intertwined entity. A song about life, a song about love. I breathe through all the pain, I breathe through what is broken. I breathe the light, I breathe the dark. Life is, in all this. In death, in birth. …
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Eeva Honkanen The Owl’s Head

The exhibition was inspired by the triptych “The Garden of Earthly Delights”, painted by Hieronymus Bosch in the early 16th century. Bosch often used owls in his paintings in a symbolical manner, placing them in a threatening atmosphere. In the work that has the same name as the exhibition, “The…
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