I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning. *
At Galleria Huuto, I present photographs, objects, and a video, all of which have been finished during 2008.
The core of the exhibition is the tension that is created from the need to tell something and the inability to express oneself.
We reach beyond ourselves and express our feelings of existing by means of language. However, words are often a hollow and frustratingly inadequate tool. According to Godard, “the words don’t say what I say. The pictures, words, and objects of the exhibition refer to meanings and struggle against them. In addition to language, I’m interested in changes, and fascinated by the different manifestations of desire for change and people’s attempts to adapt to changes. Muteness, abandonment (of language) and homelessness are themes that I repeat in my works, and these elements are present at the Galleria Huuto exhibition as well.
While supervising the exhibition, I’ll work on a large writing on the wall. Using letters about 8 inches high, I’ll create sentences on the wall. Some of them are my own, and some are quotations from numerous sources. The writing on the wall will change at least once a day, probably more often. I want to present single thoughts disconnected from their contexts; black letters against the white walls of the gallery.
The exhibition at Galleria Huuto is the third solo exhibition of artist Mikko Kuorinki (1977–).
He was born in Rovaniemi, Northern Finland, and lives in Helsinki. Kuorinki has studied at the Arts Academy at Turku University of Applied Sciences as well as the University of Art and Design Helsinki from which he graduated in 2008.
Press pictures: www.kuorinki.com/huuto.html
Additional info: tel. +358 50 3529643 / mikko(at)kuorinki.com / www.kuorinki.com
* Truth, Power, Self: An Interview with Michel Foucault. From: Martin, L.H. et al (1988) Technologies of the Self: A Seminar with Michel Foucault.
