work like these words like this | 30.8.–29.9.2019

work like these
words like this

Opening on Thursday 29 August at 6–8pm
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There is a green which has grown from seed. It covers the porous surface of a paper entirely and becomes a part of it. The paper leans against its background. Wooden beams rise up around it like walls. A glass turns it into a capsule. For thirty-two days the sun will rise and set in front of it.

There is a pink which may have been misplaced, or left behind purposely, and which was then discovered. It has attached itself firmly onto a leveled surface of a thing formed out of a smooth rock-like mass.

There is also a book that sets no terms for its reader. There are letters which come together as words, out of which fingers form sentences. Often sentences tend to become questions.

Jenni Eskola, Jaana Laakkonen
Curator: Tuomas Laulainen

( exhibition texts → https://tinyurl.com/y697ov7h )

Supported by Arts Promotion Centre Finland

Jenni Eskola (b. 1982) graduated with an MFA from the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts in 2012. She works with a variety of materials and media. Often her works are about repetition and uniqueness, void and its filling, and endurance in its temporal and physical senses. Eskola has previously exhibited her work in solo and group exhibitions at HAM gallery, Oksasenkatu11 gallery, Galerie Anhava and Amos Anderson Art Museum.

Jaana Laakkonen works with paint and wonders what it matters and means for art (and the world) to take seriously the inseparability of matter and meaning – as well as the entangledness of ontology, epistemology, and ethicology. Jaana has been considering how diverse non-human(ized) agencies, excluded by dualist ways of thinking, are (and could be) present in artistic practice and exhibitions. She continues to examine the presence of these agencies, and of unstable subject–object relations, with Karen Barad’s Agential Realism as her working companion.

Tuomas Laulainen mostly works as a writer and curator in different intersections, and values investigating the agency and reason embedded in these roles. Tuomas has degrees in art history (MA) and fine art (BFA).