- radiodonta never heard about rent rates in Töölö district nor about Lapin kulta
trajectory recalibration is in the process
KOKONAINEN / my only friend radiodonta slices the concept around land ownership, barricading the entire gallery space for the unseen prehistoric creature who swipes down all the made up regulations, values and warship skeletons of the human era into the cellar. Main room comprises the ongoing study on the trajectory behavior above the mass distributed on the black and white chess board-like floor. Limestone lump formed during the Cambrian Period (around 500 million years ago) ricochets the tension of two goals into the ground at the entrance.
In the current installation at Oksasenkatu 11 Gallery I bring together works from different periods of my practice including my first sculpture in stone (Double goal) executed during studies at Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki in 2016, one spiral element from a solo show in 2015 at Sorbus Gallery, a recent print on metal (Transformer) inspired by electricity booth close to Alppila park and ideas which have been floating around me for several years. The time while I have been doing self initiated research on the water manipulation infused with my interest in the underground and the prehistoric underwater creatures. The works featured in this exhibition vary from impulsive drawings on paper and walls to the plastic mud incorporating the hand imprints and undressed layers of stone. I am observing the order of the world rotating around a set of nominal objects and draw a line
bio
Kristina Sedlerova Villanen (b. 1987) is interested in the inconsistency of human nature, the attraction of humankind towards building unequal systems, creating concepts and the need to believe in them. She works with geological sediments, human made poorly degradable physical matter, immaterial sources and language deposits. She makes transitions in raw materials and the information history they are loaded with, unfolding the structures behind hierarchies and ownership history of natural resources. Her previous works can be described as emotionally loaded transitions in precisely selected perishable matter.
Kristina is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts Master’s degree program in Sculpture and Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture degree program in Scenography. She has been exhibiting at Park Tilburg Holland, Outo Olo Helsinki, Haukilahden vesitorni Espoo, Art au Centre #3, Liège Belgium, Van Eyck Open Studios, Maastricht Holland, Kunsthalle Helsinki, Titanik Gallery Turku, MUU Kaapeli Gallery Helsinki, Eemil Art Museum Lapinlahti, Colombo Art Biennale Sri Lanka, FISAD 2015 Turin Italy, Exhibition Laboratory Helsinki, Taiga-Space Saint Petersburg Russia and Sorbus Gallery Helsinki.
The exhibition is supported by Arts Promotion Center Finland and Finnish Cultural Foundation