Paula Saraste
Transitions
Galleria Huuto Jätkäsaari – Jätkä 1
27 June – 9 July 2017
Paula Saraste’s exhibition Transitions at Galleria Huuto in Jätkäsaari approaches mixed feelings triggered by flying and traveling from different perspectives. The exhibition takes shape through thoughts and notes inspired by human fear and through the examination of its characteristics. The anxiety caused by flying also appears as a journey to an inexplicable area, as both feelings and accidents sometimes remain unexplained.
Fear of flying is the archetype of a modern phobia, consisting of different feelings, like fear of losing control or claustrophobia. Fear intertwines with death and flying can enable one to imagine and practice one’s own death. In the exhibition, the feeling is displayed as a physical and mental space in which Saraste also highlights some absurd elements. She has, for example, photographed items that help nervous passengers when flying. The exhibition features installations, videos and photographs that are notes of fear, its manifestations, attempts to free oneself from it and also links to the simultaneous presence and possibility of death.
Paula Saraste (b. 1981, Viitasaari) is an artist who lives and works in Helsinki and Berlin. Her main artistic tools are film, photography and performance. Her works often have a psychological starting point. She is fascinated by the states and layers of the human mind, their relationship with time as well as questions related to identity. She received her Master of Fine Arts degree from the Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, in 2016. She has taken part in exhibitions in Finland and abroad, most recently Save Our Souls at the 9th Ewha International Media Art Presentation in Seoul (2016), Kemal Can+Sara Kovamäki+Paula Saraste in Helsinki (2015) and Media Ambages in Berlin (2015).
Paula Saraste
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