Time And Place For A Sermon
installation for performances
concrete podium, microphone, amplifier, white irises in a vase
2018

27.10.2018 / Time And Place For A Sermon / A performance " 15 minutes On Doing Nothing" by Milla Martikainen / Gallery Lapinlahti, Helsinki 2018

27.10.2018 / Time And Place For A Sermon
A performance "Turritopsis Dhornii - A Lecture on Mortality and Immortality" by Petra Vehviläinen

27.10.2018 / Time And Place For A Sermon
A performance "A Seasermon" by Lotta Djupsund, assisting Kastehelmi Korpijaakko

Yellow Flag / White Flag
series of 3 images
pigment prints on matte paper
80cm x 120cm
2018

Yellow Flag / White Flag
series of 3 images
pigment prints on matte paper
80cm x 120cm
2018

One of The Seven Trumpets
installation of instruments
2018

One of The Seven Trumpets
installation of instruments
2018

Notes on Vanity and Grief 1
2018
glass
40cm x 60cm

Notes on Vanity and Grief 2
2018
mirror turned over, furniture paint (Winter grey)
40cm x 60cm

Corner
pigment prints in frames
30cm x 40cm
2018

Finishing Line
pigment print on matte paper, metal pole
60cm x 100cm
2018

Preachin' To The Choir

Gallery Lapinlahti 
2018


The times we are living in give no light ethical burden. Every single task of our mundane everyday life holds a possibility to reflect the information we receive about the global changes that reach us through the flow of matter and energy. The wellbeing of different communities, formed by humans or other beings, overlaps that of our own. This means constant demand for analysis: Whose good is more important - ours or theirs? How are all these communities intertwined?

In my works I explore the wasteland between intentions and actions; how far clear thoughts and noble speeches stand from the difficulty of making concrete decisions and of holding back. How much talking do we need to turn verbs into action? What is the smallest gesture to convey emotion or intention? What happens when discourse comes to an end?

We all care for the future in one way or another, yet much talk falls on deaf ears. How does one communicate concerns related to the future without being a killjoy? How to communicate the concerns and turn them into constructive acts? To whom to speak?

With these thoughts in mind I face the gallery space as a sanctuary dedicated to the flow of time and the complexity of human nature.
I set the space in liturgical motion in order to give a gentle sermon on anticipatory grief, vanity, frustration, slowness and the imminence of the end of the world (as we know it).

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