Heli Kaskinen
Attempts to Reverse Things
25.5.–12.6.2016
Galleria Huuto Jätkäsaari – Pikkujätkä
“It’s like playing with the past.” This is how Heli Kaskinen (b. 1981) describes her working process with the new works in the exhibition Attempts to Reverse Things at Galleria Huuto, Pikkujätkä. The works are the artist’s attempts to look into the other side of memories and to approach them from a different angle.
Opposite elements face each other in the works of Kaskinen. In her photographs ordinary objects and phenomena are being reflected in a humorous way. Just like the name of the exhibition suggests the works are attempts to reverse things on a conceptual as well as performative level. At the same time the works reveal experiences of everyday life for a wider examination through photographs and different materials and objects they present.
Kaskinen studies photography at the University of the Arts and Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture. Her works have been exhibited abroad as well as in several group exhibitions in Finland. Attempts to Reverse Things is her first solo exhibition and the productive part of her BA thesis at Aalto University School of Arts, Design in the degree program of photography.
