Skorpioni / Pioni, 2024

Photograph primed on linen, wine glass, onion skin, sound 60 minutes.

The work is exhibited as a part of BFA exhibition 2024 in Kuva/Tila at Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts Helsinki. The photograph is leaning. The leaning proposes unreservedness, an open attitude towards the dry and grey outer shell. The arrangement is based on a relation between things. The peony flower on the floor is an empty wine glass that is covered by a fragile and hollow onion skin. The big behind pointing with a knife is a giant scorpion. Round, soft and sharp. There is a noise in the room. – Catalogue text from the exhibition The work consists of 20 peonies formed from wine glasses and onion skins, a 2m x 3m photograph that is primed on linen canvas. A sound of amplified air-condition humming is interrupted briefly by clinking of ice, a whistling melody and a short monolog that’s hard to decipher. It is a space where dry outer shell, empty of it’s original content blooms to form new meaning. Substance can be found not from within but from the relations of things. Passivity of the behind is contrasted with the active and threatening. Desire is contrasted with dryness and the big with the small. For a patient listener cues of meaning emerge amid grey noise.