How does a computer treat a person?
Berlin-based artists Anastasia Alekseevna (b. 1982 Moscow) and Jarkko Räsänen (b. 1984 Heinola) studies the effects of Spinal Catastrophism on the human body and mind in their exhibition. Photos / drawings, serigraphs and GIF animations take viewers on a strange journey around a subject that hurts everyone.
Artists share interest in media archeology and the perceptions of time in different media. Alekseevna has carried out a series of serigraphs based on X-rays collected from various hospitals, but also spices her choice of subject with, for example, alchemical snakeskin photograms: it is not a trace of a killed animal but an expression of natural regeneration.
In a series of titles combining drawing and performative photography, Räsänen has implemented the USB mouse's motion sensor by manipulating dense line fields that he has used as masks for photographs: he poses in familiar positions of yoga himself, but now, as unlike usually, you don't see the perfect body in perfect shapes. The artist’s installation C of Procrastination consists of a set of obsolete laptops running GIF animations. They are excerpts from an 80's analogue video mixer. From a VHS tape.
The works of Anastasia Alekseevna have been exhibited e.g. Museum Fluxus in Potsdam, Bauhaus in Dessau and Transmediale Berlin. She is also a member of the Dunkelstrom collective in Berlin, which implements light art, especially with analog projection techniques.
Jarkko Räsänen's works include In the collections of Kiasma, the State Art Commission and the Hämeenlinna Art Museum. In recent years, he has participated e.g. ARS ̈17, Near Field Communication Digital Art Biennale and Ars Electronica. He held his previous solo exhibition in Finland at Kenet Gallery last autumn.
Opening on Thursday 8.10 from 16-21. The Helsinki Covid-19 situation is peaking right now so we want people to bring their own masks to the opening, and to use hand disinfectant. We will provide masks and disinfectant for the guests. We also wish that the guest dress up warm because we can allow maximum 20 people at the gallery at once, social interactions will happen mainly outside the gallery.
The exhibition is open Wed-Sat 14-20 and 12-18 Sun.
The exhibition has been supported by the Greta and William Lehtinen Foundation and the Kone Foundation.
PRESS:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QZTN0eMUO-DoMLNLnuFaT_bqFghlkUYM/view?usp=sharing
For press and promotional purposes only. Anastasia Alekseevna & Jarkko Räsänen (c)