I’ve recently been pondering these questions from my own point of view. My acts during the painting process and the choices that have lead to them have served as a basis for realizing the exhibition. What kind of deeds and choices does finishing a painting require? In the finished painting, what remains of the process?
I believed my paintings would become translucent atlases of my deeds, portraying paths from one thing to another. I was wrong. In order to become ready, the paintings seemed to need a final act from me – an act that covered anything and everything I’d painted earlier. Every finished painting was full of impenetrable fog and shadows, the secrets of which only a lucky guess might reveal.
The painting process made me face a new question: Is this what happens, whatever I’m doing? Does the latest act tend to outshine the previous ones? Are my earlier deeds significant at all, or is it just the most recent one that counts?
The exhibition is the third and last part in the series, the first part of which dealt with thinking (Ajatuksissaan – In ones thoughts, Galleria Huuto Uudenmaankatu, 2006), and the second part with time (Aika ja minä – Time and I, Porvoo Kunsthalle, 2006/07).
Additional info and pictures:
katariina.salmijarvi(at)galleriahuuto.net, www.galleriahuuto.net
