Päivi Eskelinen
Imagery
2–25 April 2021
Galleria Huuto is open on Easter!
On Good Friday 2nd of April 2021, on Saturday 3rd of April and on Easter Sunday 4th of April the gallery is open as usual 12-5 pm.
The artist is present in the gallery on April the 10th and 11th.
I have created pictures based on images, visions and observations. The exhibition is thus a summary of different ways of seeing. The diversity of images reflects the building materials of one mind.
For me, pictures are a way of making thoughts visible. They are also a way of thinking as such. A picture that is being created tells me things that I did not know I knew. In the works featured in this exhibition, thinking has taken a variety of visual forms. I am interested in why an image has emerged looking the way it does and not some other way. These conscious or unconscious choices form the imagery that defines the special nature of an artist.
The images in the exhibition originate from different sources. It is hardly relevant for a viewer whether the starting point was an observation, an image inspired by literature or music, a memory or a dream. Images always escape and the created work is something other than the original image. Sometimes the original image is from the surrounding world of images. In spite of the abundant visual culture, an individual image stands out, but its meanings are only revealed when truly focusing on the image. In this exhibition’s works, this focusing has occurred through a slow work process. I have made the images visible by painting or more laboriously by embroidering, which is a technique that I have to struggle with. Thus, the time spent creating the works alone makes each image special.
Päivi Eskelinen (born 1960) is a visual artist, art teacher and doctor of philosophy who lives and works in Helsinki. She has graduated from the Turku Art School in 1986. She has had several group and solo exhibitions in Finland.
The exhibition and the artist’s work have been supported by the Arts Promotion Centre Finland.
Further information:
ph.eskelinen(a)gmail.com
040 5891900
