8.8. - 31.8.2025 / Gallery Hippolyte, Helsinki
13.9. - 2.11.2025 / Poriginal, Pori Art Museum, Pori


In the exhibition, the voice is given to an undefined, fictional meadow. The artistic process behind A Comedy About a Meadow That Wanted to Own Itself began with an inheritance negotiation and became a journey into how humans form communities through ownership. At the same time, the exhibition reaches beyond human relations towards interspecies entanglements, asking how practices of ownership shape the ways we exist with one another.

The historical foundation of private ownership is built on the idea of progress. Those who made the most efficient use of land were seen as having earned the right to own it. In 18th-century Britain, as wool production became more efficient and commonly used pastures were enclosed, the words manure and improvement became synonymous.

What word describes progress in an age of collapsing habitats? How do we own, when we own? Can power be relinquished? What about responsibility? Is a boundary a threat or a form of protection? Korpijaakko explores ownership and the negotiations it entails through understated humour. The works, combining photography and text, contain proclamations, dialogues, exclamations, and assertions.

In the video piece Kuuleminen (Hearing), the meadow’s monologue, supported by visual evidence, reveals a strained relationship and an attempt to resolve imbalance through the drawing of boundaries. The title refers to Article 21 of the Finnish Constitution, which states that the right to be heard in one’s own matter is one of the legal safeguards protected by law. A risograph-printed publication accompanying the video work is available to visitors in the exhibition.