At the same time as I have the need to spend time in the study, the child starts the cycle of illness with kindergarten. Your space is a moment of painting. Too short and too squeezed in between everything. In the middle of all the information coming from the world, I would just like to paint, draw my limits to the fact that this is my space and from here I will make an effort to take a peek at what others are up to when the time is right.
The exhibition looks at the individual as part of the family, community, society. Is your own space the size of a sheet enough? Is that enough for me? Is it enough for others? The work embodies states of mind, inner-born needs that collide with external reality. The work started from the need to delimit time and space. At the same time, it is paintings in space. Play with colors, their juxtapositions and the space between them. Exhibitions are an opportunity for me to build a visual world that I can only experience fragments of in my small studio.
Borders – paintings on coated and cut sheet fabrics is a spatial work where views change depending on the viewing direction. The work consists of about thirty parts, between which you can move. My visual art material is a sheet fabric, with which I look at memories and experiences from a distance. It is space-filling, but also small. Borders are thought of as barriers, walls, protected by tanks. The floating light borders can be pushed out by hand. Go further. I need space.
Johanna Pöykkö is a visual artist / textile artist born in Rovaniemi in 1977 TaM. He lives and works in Oulu’s Maikkula, looking at the individual as part of a larger whole and the passage of time. Sheet fabric as a material and information carrier, mediator, and serigraphy as a technique have been involved in making art for a long time. Pöykkö makes textile-based installations and sculptures, where overlapping colors, lights and shadows create a spatial whole. Pöykö’s works have been exhibited in, among others, the Oulu Art Museum, the Kemi Art Museum, the Finnish Crafts Museum, the Haa gallery of the Helsinki artists’ society, Gallery 5 of the Oulu artists’ society and the Tampere artists’ society’s Gallery in Mältinranta.
