Miina Aho: Soft Moment
Soft Moment is a collection of screen prints whose basis are pencil drawings produced during 2021. Somewhere on the border between figurative and abstract, residing in moments of softness and an attempt to feel as another species: how does a snail’s skin feel, the smooth snake’s lick, a hairy stomach against one’s own, a bunch of worms in the hand. The work process has in part contained the desire to change into an invertebrate and curl up under my own arm.
The works are located in the middle ground between drawing and printmaking and, by combining the two, can be deceptive. Highlighted in the works are both technique’s qualities and charms which merge into its own style. For printing, I produced my own inks using pigments and plant-based binding agents. The material aspect of screen printing and its durability have become an intrinsic element of my process and works.
Miina Aho (1990, Renko) is a Helsinki based artist working with the techniques of drawing and printmaking where the drawn mark functions as material for the printed image, morphing with the possibilities of the technique. Screen printing’s materiality and its exploration are parts of Aho’s process and works.
Aho completed her bachelor studies in the department of printmaking in 2019 and is currently completing her master’s degree. Soft Moment is the second part of her thesis work, the first of which was shown at Kuvan Kevät in spring 2021.
The exhibition has been supported by Taike.
Robin Ellis: Touched by the hand of God
Touched by the hand of God contains works which have been produced without the touch of a human hand. Gravity, motion, and friction, channelled through pens on paper, have resulted in images which reveal the process of their own creation. They are elemental, devoid of subterfuge and beholden to no-one.
Robin Clifford Ellis (1973, UK) is a Helsinki-based artist who uses primarily printmaking techniques to explore themes of transformation, adaptation and authorship. Currently he uses machines and devices to produce work which seeks to reveal aspects of the image-making process usually obscured by the influence of the human hand. Ellis is in first year of his Master studies in the department of Printmaking.
