Video: "Life goes on?" - spatial installation of multi-colored shirts
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Finnish landscape artist Kaarina Kaikkonen often refers to the environment in her work. Her installations and sculptures are made from recycled materials such as wrapping paper or used clothing.
“I have created countless spatial installations, but I will not stop there. I need to create in order to better understand myself, to understand how the inner content interacts with the outer,”says Kaikkonen. Life and death, environmental problems, problems of relationships with parents - these are, perhaps, the main themes one way or another present in her work.
As part of the cultural exchange between Italy and Finland, the artist prepared the installation "Are We Still Going On?" (“Does Life Go on?”) The artist's composition was installed in the building of the former Italian fashion factory “Max Mara”. "Are We Still Going On?" is a kind of continuation of the compositional structure of the building, and the former factory premises have become the best scenery for the spatial composition of Kaikkonen.
The hall where the installation is exhibited is ideally divided into two parts, and the horizontal reinforced concrete beams not only add the necessary architectural rhythm to the space, but also become an integral part of the composition itself. The rig consists of two symmetrical halves, forming a kind of "hull" of a giant boat.
A room that has lost its original function, clothes that are no longer needed by their owners … The theme of the installation is fragility, frailty, not only of what man creates, but of man himself. The installation took 500 shirts of various colors. After the end of the exhibition, all shirts will be recycled for reuse.
“I often look for inspiration in my old works, but this does not mean that I am limited only by them,” says the artist, “on the contrary, my previous attitudes give me an amazing perspective for development. I have always been an adventurer from art, I have always wanted and continue to want to try new things, so the concept of “my own style” is still rather vague for me. In addition, it is important for me that people find something of their own in my work, interpret it in their own way. I don't like didactics, I like to direct."
A tandem of two American artists, Anna Fulmine and Victoria Shahrokh, brought to life the spatial installation Penelopiad, which refers the viewer to Homer's Odyssey. Chaotically stretched between the walls, floor and vaulted ceiling of the gallery space, white canvas fabric resembles both a shroud, and sails, and snow-white clothes.
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