My exhibition is based on interruption and the emptiness caused by it. I discuss the broken relationship between the past and the present as well as the duality of being in the space between the customary and the unfamiliar.
We place ourselves into the present through views of the past and the future. Change breaks the linear progress of stability and the lack of perceiving new operations models creates a vacuum. Thus, duality is created when the known also turns into the unknown. Being in limbo causes a sense of detachment and non-attachment to the surroundings.
When being estranged, it is hard to organize the pieces of happiness we have into a usable entity. Our chances and everyday life appear as embryos that are hard to catch and attach to. The instability of a balancing basic everyday unsettles our conceptions of ourselves and our activities in relation to our surrounds. The unknown is uncontrollable, and unawareness and vagueness reduce our strength. We face fear, loss, uncertainty, and failure, but we also face our honest and plain selves.
Emptiness, however, is also a state of searching and OF a new possibility. What with the past having collapsed, and the lack of an existing system, we must be responsible for the task of reconstruction. Analysis enables recovery. Creating an entity is simultaneously being and becoming something.
My exhibition consists of pieces of landscape. It includes two parts which I have named Kulku (“Progression”) and Näkymä (“View”). In the front room of the gallery, there are trees sawed in two parts that are reflected in the boards that cover the floor, and in the blotchy mural that has been partly washed off. Kulku ends at a kind of a dock in the back room, the floor of which is flooded with water. The charcoal drawing on the wall as well as the rootstalk at the water’s edge portray a forest. On the back wall, the reflection of a dim light creates a horizon-like view.
Mirimari Väyrynen
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