Self Surroundings 4.12.2022–8.1.2023 Galleria Himmelblaun Kutomosalit
Finlayson Art Arean tekijätiimin ryhmänäyttely Self Surroundings esittelee monipuolisen kattauksen uusinta nykytaidetta Galleria Himmelblaun Kutomosaleissa.
Self Surroundings kokoaa yhteen kesätaidetapahtuma Finlayson Art Arean tekijätiimin teoksia monipuolisessa näyttelyssä. Mukana on 18 taiteilijaa. Kahteen näyttelysaliin levittyvässä kokonaisuudessa on esillä maalauksia, videoteoksia, piirroksia, valokuvia, veistoksia, äänitaidetta ja installaatioita.
Finlayson Art Areassa työskentelee vuosittain kansainvälinen ryhmä taidealan opiskelijoita, vastavalmistuneita taiteilijoita sekä taidealan kokeneita tekijöitä. Self Surroundings nostaa esiin nämä lahjakkaat tekijät ja tarjoaa kiinnostavan katsauksen uusimpaan nykytaiteeseen. Lähes kaikki teokset ovat syntyneet kuluneen vuoden aikana.
Näyttelyn taiteilijat:
Karina Boissonnier, isabetsi, Saija Kalliojärvi, Elina Kinnunen, Toivo Koski, Juuso Kuivila, Roni Kuulasvuo, Emily Laakso, Janna Lindfors, Pinja Marienberg, Pauliina Parjanen, Gabriella Presnal, Elina Puiras, Kössi Puska, Miia Sipponen, Susanna Suoniemi, K. Tschährä, Mikaela Välipakka.
Taidealan opiskelijat on seuraavista oppilaitoksista: Tampereen ammattikorkeakoulun Fine Art -linja, Ikaalisten käsi- ja taideteollisuusoppilaitos IKATA, Satakunnan ammattikorkeakoulun Kankaanpään taidekoulu.
Self Surroundings
4.12.2022–8.1.2023
Galleria Himmelblaun Kutomosalit
Finlaysoninkuja 9 kerros 3B
Finlaysonin alue, Tampere
Avoinna: ke–pe 11–18, la–su 12–16.
Suljettu: ma ja ti sekä 23.–27.12., 31.12., 1.1.23, 6.1.
Works
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Garden Hoes
2022 / 80x80cm / Acrylic Painting
Garden Hoes is a third to compliment Thumb and Lesbos. It is inspired by the same topics many of the other works by this artist draw on, i.e. gardens as heterotopia, spaces of sexual liberation and empowerment, queer time/temporality, reinventing childhood nostalgia, and overall being inspired by queer people. The title Garden Hoes isn’t necessarily as a root to sexualize the small beings’ sexualities within the paintings but is rather to reclaim what it is to be considered a hoe, and/or to be conceived as a sexual oddity, abnormality, or deviant. Garden Hoes exists to represent the sensuality and gentility of queer hoes.
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Lesbos
2022 / 36x42cm / Acrylic Painting
These works are inspired as a loose parody of fairy tales like Thumbelina and fairies outside of a cisheteronormative context and in reclamation over the derogative use of "fairy" towards the queer community. The works reimagine these fairy tales with queer people as their main characters. They are not necessarily about sex, but more about sensuality, imagination, peace, community, and nostalgia.
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Thumb
2022 / 40x40cm / Acrylic painting
The works are also inspired by theories like "queer-time" which describe how queer persons may experience a more non-linear childhood, adolescence, and overall youth as much of those times may have been experienced in the closet and/or suppressed. The inspiration was drawn around the hopes we have for society - i.e. peaceful communities devoid of sexual and gender oppression, as well as the celebration of queer joy.
360 video material used in Augmented Reality (AR) feature as apart of the exhibition.
Heterotopia / 2022
Single and/or two-channel moving image, 9:43
The work is inspired by Foucault’s concept of heterochronies (othered times) & heterotopias (othered spaces) which are often in between utopias and dystopias and mirroring or disturbing/deconstructing the surrounding spaces. The interest was in exploring some of these heterotopic spaces and what makes them othered in an attempt to further explore spatiality and schizophrenic politics described by Deleuze & Guatarri. The work was filmed in Paimio, Espoo, and Helsinki, Finland as well as Madeira, Portugal.
The places that have been described as heterotopias by Foucault have been saunas, cemeteries, honeymoon hotel rooms, libraries, movie theaters, museums, gardens, psychiatric hospitals, boats, and many more. Each is under the label according to a specific set of characteristics. Such as; a ritualistic process to enter or become the space, having heterochronies, a space that juxtaposes many spaces, places of deviation or for behavior outside the norm, and spaces for crisis (ex. for honeymoon). Wonderland has also been critiqued as a literary example of heterotopia, hence, the use of parts of the silent film Alice in Wonderland (1915) distributed by the American Film Manufacturing Company (film in the public domain/copyright expired).
Exhibited in:
2023. Visual Culture 2023. CICA Museum, Gimpo, Korea.
2022. Self Surroundings. Himmelblau Gallery, Tampere, Finland.