Elmeri Terho
Measured
Elisa Villota Sadaba
Encapsulated Spaces
2.–28.6.2024
Open
Tue–Fri 13-18
Sat-Sun 12-17
The gallery is closed on Midsummer’s Day June 21st and 22nd
Elmeri Terho — MEASURED
The measuring-wheel-pencil, which I've used to create the works displayed in this exhibition, measures the length of a drawn line. Its use requires precision so that the meter registers the distance traveled only when the pen leaves a mark on the surface. Thus, the user has fewer opportunities to focus e.g. on the composition of the work being processed.
In this way, I feel I can achieve a similar randomness in my drawings as can be found, for example, in unintentional scratches and other wear on building surfaces. As an example, I consider the scratches caused by the edge of a trash can on the wall of a dumpster enclosure. With my measuring wheel drawings, my intention is to explore the idea of unintentional scratches left by garbage collectors and the trash cans they operate, and thereby, a freer identity in creating visual art and its effects on the experience of being.
I also see viewing the measuring wheel works as a metaphor for being in the moment or non-being: they offer the viewer the possibility to either be at the mercy of an abstract mass of lines or to choose an intellectualized thought from the available line length information and thus disrupt the impression of uncontrollability with specific knowledge.
Elisa Villota Sadaba — Encapsulated Spaces
The different environments that can be found within a city, some places more hidden than others, help to generate diverse and new points of view or languages from which to describe a set of spaces. Cities have been the scene of countless private memories that have passed through them. At the same time, collective and public memory episodes are also constituted. It is within large cities where, if we pay attention, we find these encapsulated spaces that introduce us to a new place from which to understand the city.
The sensations linked to these spaces will mainly remain in our memory, but will these memories be lost over time? How can presence be approached through absence? What sounds do we find in these spaces? What stories and memories dwell within them?
Encapsulated Spaces aims to show experimental cartographies or diverse perspectives through recordings of selected public spaces. Thus constructing experimental narratives and creating spaces for reflection. It is by combining images, sounds and poems by the writer Robert Creeley (Helsinki Window) that a constellation of disparate recordings are brought together, with the common denominator of free expression and reflection.
Accessibility:
The space is unfortunately unaccessible for wheelchairs. There is a 3 cm high doorstep and rampless staircase of four steps when entering the space. The width of the door is 85 cm. When entering downstairs you have to go down steep stairs to get to the ground floor space. There is no elevator to the cellar. There is a small toilet in the space. Please contact us if you have anything to ask!