Between us / Meidän välissä / Mellan oss showed in:
O.S.A.R.S V.P. Installation with video, drawings, photos, Studio talks and a tent, Gallery Elverket / Pro Artibus, Tammisaari, 16th of June 2023 – 7th of January 2024.
The Work of the Head, the Heart, the Hands, Video installation with a wall work, Gallery Valo at Arktikum, Rovaniemi, 17th of October to the 14th of December 2024.
The installation consist of a wall size photo print (4,5 m) and looped video (42 min) in a tent (3mx3m) deals with the communication that occurs when faced with a work nearing completion or still in the making. The artist contemplates the importance of the intervening space in artistic encounters. In the video, Professor Tarja Pitkänen-Walter and artist Marika Orenius talk about artworks that are about to be exhibited. It was filmed in February 2023. Studio discussion is a basic tool in artist training in the Helsinki Academy of Fine Arts where they also both work, and so the artwork deals with art pedagogy.
The figures on the photo print are ancient statues or their torsos. They are arranged in a row and surrounded by drawings that symbolise the space between the figures or the relationships between the figures. Smaller photos with modern bodies, or their body parts are connected to the ancient torsos by presenting missing parts of the statues.
