Konepuutarhassa / The apparatus in the garden
Group exhibition at the Utopias Lahti Visual Arts Festival, with Sauli Sirviö, Noora Sandgren, Carl Victor Wingren and Maija Savolainen. Curated by Kaisa Syrjänen, Henri Airo and Toivo Heinimäki.
Old Art Museum of Lahti, Lahti, Finland.
May 2023.
Installation view of the exhibition.
Alkumunat kiertävät maitomatoa, maitomato kiertää vastapäivään, minä kierrän / Primordial eggs rotate around the milk worm, the milk worm rotates counter-clockwise, I twist in
Glazed ceramics, sand, clay, roadside plants, seeds from forest pine, forest spruce, forest maple and forest linden.
Each primordial egg contains one tree seed. Visitors can pick an egg of their choosing, and plant it in a place of importance to them.
Details from the work.
Rukous kimalaiselle III / Prayer to the bumblebee III
Glazed ceramics, sand, roadside plants, surplus wood.
The sculpture is shaped to suit the housing needs of bumblebees, and after the exhibition the works was placed in gardens as nesting sites for them.
Metsä kaartaa sisään (vas.) ja Uusi aisti (oik) / The forest twists in (left) and A new kind of perception (right)
Anthotypes on red cabbage, red onion and tansy leaves, handmade cotton paper, surplus wood frames.
Kuoriaisen salaisuus / The secret of a beetle
Red cabbage and coffee dyed cotton, teak hanger.
The text is written with Beetlebet, an alphabet based on bark beetle markings on trees.
Rukous kimalaiselle IV / Prayer to the bumblebee IV
Glazed ceramics, sand, roadside plants.
The sculpture is shaped to suit the housing needs of bumblebees, and after the exhibition the work was placed in gardens as nesting sites for them.
Rukous kimalaiselle I / Prayer to the bumblebee I
Glazed ceramics, sand, roadside plants.
The sculpture is shaped to suit the housing needs of bumblebees, and after the exhibition the work was placed in gardens as nesting sites for them.
Kevät-Risti / 3rd of May
Sound piece, 3:12 min.
The sound piece was played from a directional speaker. The spoken poem has been edited by and sound piece designed by Juho Hoikka.
Puut ovat täynnä runoja I * / The trees are full of poems I*
Drypoint, handmade cotton paper dyed with red onion.
Editions of 5 + 2 AP
Asemic poem based on the nesting traces of ips typographus.
*Reference to the poem “Noita kuusia ei saa kaataa”. Kilpi, Eeva.1987: Animalia. WSOY, Porvoo.
Puut ovat täynnä runoja II * / The trees are full of poems II *
Drypoint, handmade cotton paper dyed with red onion.
Editions of 5 + 2 AP
Asemic poem based on the nesting traces of pityogenes chalcographus.
*Reference to the poem “Noita kuusia ei saa kaataa”. Kilpi, Eeva.1987: Animalia. WSOY, Porvoo.
Rukous kimalaiselle III / Prayer to the bumblebee III
Glazed ceramics, sand, roadside plants, surplus wood.
The sculpture is shaped to suit the housing needs of bumblebees, and after the exhibition the work was placed in gardens as nesting sites for them.