Saku Soukka
Blind Stream + Paper Mirror
26 March – 10 April 2016
Galleria Huuto Jätkäsaari – Jätkä 1 and Pikkujätkä
During Easter the gallery has usual opening hours (closed on Monday as usual).
My Blind Stream exhibition, which was on display last winter at the Northern Photographic Centre in Oulu and at Titanik Gallery in Turku, has been updated and it is now coming to Galleria Huuto in Jätkäsaari, Helsinki. My collection of photographs and poems called Paperipeili (Paper Mirror) will also be launched in the exhibition opening.
The Blind Stream + Paper Mirror exhibition deals with various themes such as darkness, light, love, sexuality and death. Dialogues between movement and rest as well as exterior and interior are often essential in my works. My works depict many characters and even in a first person narrative (both visual and textual) the first person character contains many different people. To bring up different phenomena and juxtaposition thereof is the most important issue.
My methods of expression are photography, video, poetry and installations. When I think about my working processes as a whole I have noticed that, irrespective of the medium, I intuitively collect visions and thoughts and through elimination, editing and different working methods they later turn into pieces of work.
Saku Soukka (b. 1982, Oulunsalo) will soon complete his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts. In addition to some solo exhibitions, his works have previously been on display as part of various group exhibitions, for example at the Espoo Museum of Modern Art (EMMA), Finnish Museum of Photography, Tent Academy Awards in Rotterdam, Netherlands, and at the Studi Aperti Festival in Ameno, Italy. The photograph and poem collection Paperipeili is his first book and it will be published by Noxboox.
sakusoukka(a)hotmail.com / +358 40 726 8118
