Mammu and Pasi Rauhala
Love Never Fails
Galleria Huuto Jätkäsaari – Jätkä 2
3.12.–18.12.2016
Galleria Huuto Jätkäsaari is open on Independence Day 6th December.
As time passes, routines and behaviors become safe ways to act. Year after year we read the same paper in the same position in the morning. We eat, we fight, we get offended and laugh like we always do. Although we are very different from each other, we also have many similarities. We share some of the same values and attitudes. Sometimes it is difficult to tell the difference between your own and another person’s opinion. Is this how I feel or has my relationship with this person altered my opinions, altered me? Somewhere else I may behave differently. In a long relationship the boundary between me and you is blurred. Does this, in a way, lead to the creation of a new person, us?
The Rauhalas utilize symbolism related to Finnish wedding traditions. The name of the exhibition, Love Never Fails, refers to the First Epistle to the Corinthians, a text often read at weddings. It refers to the permanence of love, to love that always exists. Love between people does, however, seem incomplete and sometimes even transient. One has to work hard to keep it alive. So what is love and what is becoming accustomed to something because it feels safe? Is it love that we trust this new person called “us” when our own boundaries seem to be blurred and when we are the furthest away from each other?
Love Never Fails is part of the extensive Bears All Things project which the Rauhalas have been working on since 2013. Bears All Things documents everyday life and the renovation of an old house in wedding outfits. It includes a series of videos and photographs, installations as well as performances and recordings thereof. Different parts of the project have previously been on display at the Paikkari Performance Festival (2013), Forum Box (2014), Riga Art Space in Latvia (2016) and Galleria Lapinlahti (2016).
Pasi Rauhala is a media artist whose works are often spatial and only come into existence with the viewer’s presence utilizing various types of sensors and modern technology. He earned a master’s degree from the Department of Time and Space Arts at the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts in 2009 and from the Aalto University School of Art, Design and Architecture in 2012. Recently he has worked with space, ready-made objects, video, photography, installations and performances.
Mammu Rauhala is a performing arts professional who graduated from Metropolia University of Applied Sciences in 2014. She has extensive experience working with people in social services, which adds a distinctive touch and social criticism to her art. She creates performance art as well as urban art both independently and as part of the Parasta Ennen collective.
Mammu Rauhala, www.mammu.fi , mammu(at)mammu.fi, tel. 0442605234
Pasi Rauhala, www.pasirauhala.fi, pasi(at)pasirauhala.fi, tel. 0456705236
