Pia Kousa
28.1. – 15.2.2009
Galleria Huuto Uudenmaankatu
The works on display form a space featuring nature within a cultural framework and pregnant with meaning. Archaic technology and optical devices borrowed from the history of the moving picture take the visitor into a garden in which time changes shape. The works raise questions about the relationship between picture, illusion, imitating, and reality. Some works consist of transparent photographs in several layers. Together they form an image of a sudden crystallization of different moments; an impression of a three-dimensional photograph.
The series ‘Still life’ follows the classical themes of painting. The linear continuum of time is combined with the cyclic one, the growing period of plants. The moment portrayed in the picture features different, overlapping layers of time. The present is made of structures of history and it becomes the past as we move towards the future.
The works place the garden plants and animals into a museum-like setting. They become objects of an enquiring, defining, and classifying way of looking. The elements have been isolated from the surrounding reality and from nature, and they have become replicas and curiosities. Meanwhile, the works reach towards the indefinable that exists between three-dimensionality and two-dimensionality; between reality and the picture. The pictures are both real photographs and fictive, spontaneously forming props of a rebuilt reality.
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Pia Kousa
pia.kousa(at)gmail.com
Tel. +358 400 959 702
