Point-form in Time | Ajallisesti pistemäinen
8.–30.4.2022
HAA Galleria, Helsinki
Solo Exhibition | Yksityisnäyttely
The idea of duration - as inevitable as it is problematic - is apparently impossible to combine with the idea of a point, for instance something point-form in time.
(Theodor Adorno, Aesthetic Theory, 1970. Translation from Finnish by the artist)
Drawings, paperworks and a soundscape. In this exhibition I used mundane papers and scribes such as copying and graph paper, ballpoint pens and pencils as material. In addition I made lines and traces with charcoal, ink and spray paint. Excerpts from different types of texts – art theory, weather reports, journal notes and newspaper articles – worked as a basis and inspiration for the artworks. The recurring subject was a thought process that is varying in clarity, mixed with sensory and emotional impulses and that escapes even from itself.
30.3. Shall we say that now we’re here and doing these things. And later, when it’s time, we’ll be doing other things.
(NJ, excerpt from a journal, 2021)
Sounds for the exhibition were made by Matti Berg.
Some of the works in the exhibition were made in the Källskär artist residency period in Åland in September 2021.
Artist’s work was influenced by the PortRe portfolio residency in Copenhagen in October 2021 awarded by Stina Krook Foundation and the Finnish Cultural Institute in Denmark.
Artist’s work was supported by Arts Promotion Centre Finland.