Jarno Vesala is participating in this year’s 7th Turku Biennial (10.6.–30.8.2015) with his and Krister Gråhn’s joint video installation Työn alla (Under Construction). The biennial offered the artists the opportunity to intervene in the museum architecture and arrange their works in the museum’s premises questioning the traditional understanding of corridors, walls and museum space in…
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Taneli Rautiainen (b. 1983) is a sculptor who uses space, sound and light as his materials. His architectural and sculptural site-specific installations challenge and play with the viewer’s perception. For New Narrative and Reader Rautiainen is creating a new site-specific installation that has been inspired by city lights and movement. A photograph taken of moving lights with long…
Camilla Vuorenmaa (b. 1979) is an artist who works with painting and wood carving. In her works she depicts people in still moments where holiness and everyday life encounter. In most of her works one can detect human figures but she would not describe them as portraits per se: “They are kind of portraits of humanity….
Bita Razavi (b. 1983) in a artist who works with photography, video art and performance. Razavi’s works deal with communication, collective memory and dialectics of private and public in different political and social situations. Her works are often based on a text, and video and photography are just different ways of narrating. She describes her works…
Sami Parkkinen (b. 1974) is a photographer who is investigating the need for a redefinition of society and humanity. Environmental and social themes are featured strongly in his art, trying to imagine a more natural relationship between humankind and nature.In the words of a Finnish poet Pentti Saarikoski: “To see the world, one must first get rid of…