Hanna Marno: Mimolette
12.4.-1.5.2022
Open
Wed-Sun 12-18
1.5 12-15
Opening on 12.4.2022 at 17-19, warmly welcome!
Saturday 16.4 and Sunday 17.4 at 12-13 a durational moving installation Rankalainen by choreographer Favela Vera Ortiz and dancer Lara Müller on view from the street and Mika Waltari park. Mimolette opens at 13 on the days of the dance performance.
Mimolette is an exhibition that consists of four built-on-site installations at gallery Oksasenkatu 11. The exhibition explores being in the world by eating through its’ sedimentary layers. The name Mimolette refers to a French semi-hard orange cheese. During aging the cheese is contaminated with cheese mites. These little arthropods ripen the cheese by eating microscopic tunnels inside the cheese. This process gives Mimolette-cheese it’s distinct nutty flavor borderlining edible, rotten, organic and mechanical.
The surface of the cheese is crater-like, lively and fantastical. On closer inspection, there are tiny doors closing and opening, quite like in a Paleolithic cave village, a rock-cut tomb or a field of mite-made airways. The cheese gets its distinct reddish orange color from annatto food coloring made from pyramid-shaped seeds of achiote tree (latin. bixa orellana.) It’s a famous shade of orange that can also be blended with cadmium yellow (*) (**) and English red ochre, while washing it rhythmically with egg tempera. Layered cooking paint would also do, but it would have to be iron sulphate based (***). And for that matter, the mixture of broom yellow and carmine might work, depending on the binding agent. Imperative of the mixture is that the other one of the colors is synthetic while the other one is organic.
Citations:
(*or it’s brighter version GGTN-powder (60’s plastic yellow.))
(**Production seized in the RE.AL Color S.P.A factory in the industrial town of Lonigo, Italy, but I managed to get some of the last batch!)
(***Not zinc sulphate in any case!!!)
BIO
Hanna Marno (b. 1981) is a sculptor and a landscape artist who works and lives in Siikainen, Satakunta. During the last few years of living in the small village of Mimolette, her diet has consisted of red ochre for breakfast and lunch. After a hard day of work, her dinner is more versatile: a portion of vitriol for the muscles, rye for the blood and yellow ochre so she could see better. For supper she enjoys a cup of varnish and graphite porridge, because it gives the night a shelter. Dog friend Mauri supervises the portions behind his bowl of delicatessen.
In her art, Marno observes the thematics of communities, power, matter and a horsestatue as a substance. She builds encounters of different environments that are rarely anymore combined with a common material. After all, what is the glue that binds us all, she asks.
Harri Sippola (b. 1978, Savitaipale) is a Pori based producer (Samurai Rauni Reposaarelainen, Pori Film Festival) and a musician (Magyar Posse, Kuusumun Profeetta.) As a sound and solo artist Sippola goes by the name Alkemi4. His aesthetic in creating spacial soundscapes borderlines between the synthetic and the organic.
Mimolette exhibition is supported by The Arts Promotion Center Finland, The Finnish Cultural Foundation, Porin Väriässät and Finnfoam.
Press images:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1AhhQLXQfZrPbtthsuPCQ9yDfYqtBxNB4?usp=sharing
Contact:
marnohanna(a)gmail.com, nolla44-5262201
Photo Matti Kilponen
Moving installation RANKALAINEN
16.4 & 17.4.2022 at 12-13
Choreography and costume Favela Vera Ortiz
Dance Lara Müller
Sculpture Hanna Marno
Moving installation Rankalainen is a durational performance which the audience can follow as long as they wish. The dancer moves for 60 minutes in a small gallery space. The audience can see the dancer behind the gallery’s window from the street and the neighboring Mika Waltari park. Rankalainen is a collaboration and a dialogue with the relief-piece Communites, according to Mimolette by sculptor Hanna Marno. The inspiration for the movement comes from the word ranka (Finnish for spine), as the physiological and anatomical spine in humans and animals and trees stripped from their bark. Rankalainen is a made-up word that combines flora and a spine creating a new creature.
Note! Please take your mobile and headphones with you for listening to the sound, we only have a limited set of headphones.
BIO
Favela Vera Ortiz is a Finnish-Argentinian choreographer based in Helsinki, Finland. She studied at the University of Dance, in the department of choreography in Stockholm, Sweden. Favela has choreographed works for big stages, galleries and site-specific works. She has done commission work for dance companies in Buenos Aires and in Gothenburg among other locations. Favela has collaborated with visual artists since 2013 creating dance films and video works. She has worked collaboratively at several artist residencies, most often at the residency of Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, France, where she created her first moving installation work in January 2020. At the moment she works with a grant from the Kone Foundation.
Lara Müller is a dancer, working in different kinds of contemporary dance productions. She is originally from Switzerland, graduated 2020 from the Zurich University of arts (ZHdK) with Bachelor in Contemporary Dance. After her graduation she worked with different Choreographers in Europe. Among others are Joshua Monten Dance Company (CH), Company Mafalda (CH), Poetic Disasters Club (NDL). From year to date Lara has lived in Helsinki, where she has worked with MimoArt Company, Apple Punch & Raremother.
In January 2022 Lara started a new collaboration with the choreographer Favela Vera Ortiz. Their first performance Liquid will premiere in the end of March at the Theatre Museum.
https://dancer-lara-m.tumblr.com/
Rankalainen moving installation is supported by Matti Kilponen, Sini Kotilainen, Kone Foundation and Arts Promotion Centre Finland