Jaana Laakkonen

~=2cm, deep=~

3.-23.12.2021

Open
wed-sun 13-18

Note! Exhibition closes on 23.12. already at 17:45.

over 60 years of dust / fabric runs through a nose / stretchiness turns into scatteredness / (not-) staying away / stranger's dog hair underneath / familiar hair over / sand / sand mixed in former stretchiness / dust / powdery mixture / scissors creak (with..) / a collection of lying and sitting + / documentation of repetitious squeezing / under weight / under fibres / under dirt / under / off-the-ground-holder / fabrics cut sparingly / holes / more staples, hardboard, plywood and stretched fabric than in any of my works in years / phthalates? / releasing green colour / ...to foam rubber / ...to a wall / (...to lungs?) / leaves fingers greasy and sticky / ‟56. Sap Green, Underside of Lower Wings of Orange-Tip Butterfly” / warmer than the one i used / what was supposed to stay on, descended 2cm deep in / (and did not stay there either)

Jaana Laakkonen is an artist born in 1985 in Joensuu, Finland, currently living and working in Helsinki. Solo exhibition in Oksasenkatu 11 continues (t)he(i)r recent years' artistic practice with paint, text, feminist posthumanism and the everyday. Lately, she has worked with a sofa who intruded her respiratory system, thoughts and practice. In 2022 Jaana's works can be encountered for example in K17 Space for Art and Ecology in Sipoo (FI) and in Cincinnati CAC (US). The practice that led to this exhibition was kindly funded by The Finnish Cultural Foundation's Uusimaa Regional Fund.