ENNI VEKKELI JANETTE HOLMSTRÖM
NATURE OF THINGS 27.9 - 16.10.2019
GALLERIA BECKER, JYVÄSKYLÄ
Enni Vekkelin ja Janette Homströmin näyttely Nature of Things avautuu Galleria Beckerissä torstaina 26. syyskuuta. Näyttelyssä on esillä videoteoksia, installaatioita, sekä veistoksia. Tekijät lähestyvät muiston, paikan ja identiteetin käsitteitä yhteisesti sekä henkilökohtaisista näkökulmistaan.
Paikat ja esineet säilyttävät muistoja ja mennyttä aikaa. Muistot kiinnittyvät meihin ja me muiston synnyttäneeseen paikkaan ja hetkeen. Mitä tapahtuu, kun muistoja rakentanut ja säilyttänyt paikka katoaa?
Vekkeliltä on veistosten lisäksi esillä videoteos nimeltä Lucia. Tiloja, joissa teos on kuvattu, ei osin enää ole. Kuvat kuitenkin ovat ja niiden hetkissä mennyt säilyy. Vekkeli liikkuu henkilökohtaisesta kohti yleistä; me kaikki elämme ajassa ja tilassa. Se, keitä olemme, määrittyy sen kautta, millaisessa suhteessa olemme taakse jätettyyn ja siihen, mitä vielä ei ole. Holmström pohtii muistojen ja materiaalien suhdetta identiteettimme rakentajina. Muistoja säilötään valokuviin, paikkoihin ja esineisiin. Materiaalinen ympäristömme arkistoi historiaamme ja identiteettiämme. Näyttelyn installaatiot elävät ajassa ja paikassa pohtien muistoja, jotka rakentuvat valikoivasta muistamisesta ja unohtamisesta.
UPCOMING:
TAIDEKESKUS ITÄ 21.11 - 14.12
LAPPEENRANTA
TAIDEKESKUS ITÄ 21.11 - 14.12
LAPPEENRANTA
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SHCH|ŠČ gallery 11.4 - 4.5.2019
Enni Vekkeli brings to shch-gallery a 3 - channelled animation titled Spirit - Mother - Daughter. In the animation the acts of turning and facing, dismantling masklike hands, and revealing the face, are repeated.
The title Spirit - Mother – Daughterrefers to the thoughts of philosopher Luce Irigaray. Irigaray wonders how should women place them self in the search of perfection, as the image of perfect/godlike has often been a masculine projection in our/christian culture. Irigaray is hardly only a thinker, who is worried about the potential of feminine being dramatically unseen and therefore un existing. Vekkeli shares the thoughts of Irigaray, that it is impossible for a person to be fully her/him self as long as people - let it be any minority - are seen as members of a certain group and not as persons on their own.
Though there is critical thinking behind the work of art, the artist is encouraging the viewer to approach it just as an act of poetry.
In her recent works Vekkeli has often been using clay – for a ceramic sculpture - or more often as a material of stop-motion animation. When used for animation, heaviness and materiality of clay is being digitalized into immaterial, 2-dimensional layer. Sculpture is brought from space to time and the rhythm becomes an important element. In shch- gallery the play of dimensions, time and space is taken still a step further to a spatial installation.
Enni Vekkeli is a visual artist living and working in Imatra, Finland. Her work covers artistic fields of video, installation, animation and drawing.
The sound design is made by Tuomas Ollikainen. He is a sculptor living and working in Joensuu, Finland.
SHCH|ŠČ gallery 11.4 - 4.5.2019
Enni Vekkeli brings to shch-gallery a 3 - channelled animation titled Spirit - Mother - Daughter. In the animation the acts of turning and facing, dismantling masklike hands, and revealing the face, are repeated.
The title Spirit - Mother – Daughterrefers to the thoughts of philosopher Luce Irigaray. Irigaray wonders how should women place them self in the search of perfection, as the image of perfect/godlike has often been a masculine projection in our/christian culture. Irigaray is hardly only a thinker, who is worried about the potential of feminine being dramatically unseen and therefore un existing. Vekkeli shares the thoughts of Irigaray, that it is impossible for a person to be fully her/him self as long as people - let it be any minority - are seen as members of a certain group and not as persons on their own.
Though there is critical thinking behind the work of art, the artist is encouraging the viewer to approach it just as an act of poetry.
In her recent works Vekkeli has often been using clay – for a ceramic sculpture - or more often as a material of stop-motion animation. When used for animation, heaviness and materiality of clay is being digitalized into immaterial, 2-dimensional layer. Sculpture is brought from space to time and the rhythm becomes an important element. In shch- gallery the play of dimensions, time and space is taken still a step further to a spatial installation.
Enni Vekkeli is a visual artist living and working in Imatra, Finland. Her work covers artistic fields of video, installation, animation and drawing.
The sound design is made by Tuomas Ollikainen. He is a sculptor living and working in Joensuu, Finland.
