Anu Haapanen
Expedition
Galleria Huuto Jätkäsaari – Jätkä 1
15-30 July 2017
The works in the exhibition depict made-up landscapes, places just before and after a change, future scenes and scenes that no longer exist. The landscapes in the paintings are mythical spaces and utopias with flashes of the story of an imaginary location or civilization. The spaces and landscapes created in the paintings serve as elements loaded with meanings or as a stage for a symbolic event or an undefined experience. The scenes give way to the laws of nature and on the surface of the paintings the reality is cut and blurred. The movement of the substance and elements arises, creating eruptions and covering, quiet and flowing disasters. There are no people visible in the landscapes, but the paintings show signs of human presence, references to humans as little passengers in the universe, drowning in the landscape. A human forces one’s way into the landscape, sometimes as a builder, sometimes as a conqueror and a destroyer: as a curious, not always very benevolent explorer.
Anu Haapanen (b. 1981) graduated from the Lahti Institute of Fine Arts in 2013. She lives and works in Helsinki.
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