Anna Broms & Verna Joki:
EEMELIKELLO
Henrik Pathirane:
Naming Salts
8.–26.2.2023
Open
Tue–Sun 12–18
Opening on Tuesday 7.2. 17–19
Photo: Elis Hannikainen
Anna Broms & Verna Joki:
EEMELIKELLO
I run my bare arm along a white painted stonewall. With my fingertips I swipe the cotton ribbon of eemelikello. I’ve built the system out of cardboard, cotton ribbon, and a brass paper fastener. The ribbon sways and starts measuring time. (Time unit: how many touches ago).
Eemelikello is a joint exhibition by Anna Broms and Verna Joki located in Oksasenkatu 11 gallery. The exhibition features e.g. hand-drawn animations, soft sculptures, and a moving image from underwater.
Anna Broms
The matter never rests.
The delicate organic cotton batiste reacts to everything: the wind, humidity, and touch. In unison with other materials and the weather conditions, the works gain skin-like properties.
Anna Broms is a process-oriented painter. She creates situations, fragile and porous installations. Rather than solid objects, her works can be seen as subjects in a constant state of transformation.
Anna Broms holds an MFA from the Academy of Fine Arts at the University of the Arts Helsinki. Currently Broms has a studio residency in Helsinki International Artist Programme (HIAP) Suomenlinna in collaboration with University of the Arts Helsinki Foundation. Her work has been funded by Kone Foundation and Arts Promotion Centre Finland.
Verna Joki
Verna Joki is a Helsinki-based visual artist. She makes digital drawings that often take the form of animation, as well as ink drawings on paper. Joki draws from perception things that she finds fascinating. In both life and art, she is interested in minutness, simplicity and ease.
Verna Joki holds an MFA from the Academy of Fine Arts at the University of the Arts Helsinki. Her next solo exhibitions will be seen in the summer of 2023 in Pori at the Poriginal-gallery and in Tampere at the Art Center Mältinranta.
Henrik Pathirane:
Naming Salts
Henrik Pathirane's exhibition “Naming Salts” has at its core the plurality of modes of perception, the life of the gaze. The exhibition features forms made with an Olivetti Lettera 25 typewriter on rice paper: a few words, small ink figures and other things.
In a literate society, morphemes and phonemes destroy the freedom of the line interpreted as a letter, with violence comparable to the act of naming. The letters in the exhibition just want to be and meet other lines without the burden of meaning. In this attempt to be abstract forms, they oscillate between figurative pictures, textures, and linguistic meanings. In the best case, the sway turns into vibration and the typewriter art puts the perception in a restless, unsettled position.
Henrik Pathirane is a Helsinki-based poet who is interested in the possibilities of exhibition-based literature and publication-based visual art, and the ways they mix.