2018 Earth Song / Maan laulu. GalleriaKONE, Hämeenlinna
29.9.-23.10.2018

This body of works represents the culmination of a 7 year long project.
Earth Song / Maan laulu exhibition features drawings, photographs, installations, research material and video that reflect on forgetting history and how world history events displace entire communities and their micro cultures, which then integrate with the majority culture and run the risk of ceasing to exist.
One important factor that has been crucial for me in creating these works is their materiality; my choice of materials and how they are presented becomes an integral part of the visual narrative. Many of the glass plates show the ware of time, dust and finger prints, water damage and crackle glaze fractures in the surface, all of this is important as it speaks of the passage of time. Both architecture and photographic materials are forever changing with time: eroding and moving towards futility. However, there is a sentient quality about both surfaces – a fragility that speak pleasurably of memory and the human condition.