Anne Siirtola
Room of Growth
10.3. – 28.3.2010
Galleria Huuto Uudenmaankatu
Installation/
Motion picture and sewn spaces
“Oh the lightness of leaving one’s shadow for a while…”
While working on this exhibition, I have reflected on the human life and its value; transience and eternity; the changes and chances in everyday life. Pursuing and letting go – feeling lighter. All this becomes a multilayered texture, full of imprints of life.
In Kasvuhuone (”Room of Growth”), I have darned together worn and patched-up pieces of clothing, full of holes. They form the well-worn walls, or the skin of the work. The materials have been collected from many persons and generations. The wear and tear and patches illustrate the numerous decades the clothes originate from. Each garment has been softened by life.
The events inside the room are reflected on the walls as silhouettes, lighting up the work.
The video work Puutarhassa (Ín the Garden´) represents the human mind. I have filmed my garden and
greenhouse all the way from the spring until the late fall.
Welcome!
The exhibition has been kindly supported by the Alfred Kordelin foundation.
Contact info:
annesiirtola(at)gmail.com
Tel. +358 50 5337367
