2015 November
Exhibiting at Gallery Myymälä2, Helsinki
Kalle Kataila is presenting a 16mm film projection installation where by reversing and rearranging technologies he is asking how those technologies mediate our experiences and in particular how our concepts of time and place are scattered by them. Kataila’s work takes its starting point in a live webcam feed that records the landscape and the nightly cloud formations that resemble 19th century romantic landscape paintings, but at anonymous moment is that view produced by mechanical eye a landscape – do the clouds dance without our perception of them?
Kalle Kataila is presenting a 16mm film projection installation where by reversing and rearranging technologies he is asking how those technologies mediate our experiences and in particular how our concepts of time and place are scattered by them. Kataila’s work takes its starting point in a live webcam feed that records the landscape and the nightly cloud formations that resemble 19th century romantic landscape paintings, but at anonymous moment is that view produced by mechanical eye a landscape – do the clouds dance without our perception of them?
2015 March
Exhibiting at Gallery Taik Persons, Berlin
Displacement
Opening: Friday, March 13, 2015, 6 – 9 pm Duration of the exhibition: March 14 - April 25, 2015 Participating artists: Kalle Kataila, Tanja Koljonen Jaana Maijala and Mikko Rikala. Curated by Maya Byskov and Terhi Tuomi
Gallery Taik Persons is proud to present Displacement, the first in a series of curated group exhibitions showing new positions by young artists working with (and around) the medium of photography. The title of the show refers to the distance that exists between experience and memory, and the translation of one into the other. The works in this exhibition encourage the viewer to think about their points of contact with memory and their emotional and aesthetic experiences. The show questions how these points of contact are preserved in our minds and asks the question: is it possible to exist in two places at the same time? Sensory and finite encounters are articulated through the use of the photographic process with space for materiality in the form of sculptures, collages and film. The exhibition is centered around the works of four artists, who each propose alternative configurations of spatio/temporal displacement. All the artists in this show share an interest in conceptualizing landscapes, while at the same time proposing associations between emotional and physical experiences within these landscapes, and thus displacing these encounters, in time and place.
Structures of disintegration and decay as indicators of the inevitable, progressive passage of linear time define many of the works of Mikko Rikala. The themes of being drawn between diverging powers and elements, between the sea and the sky, matter and air, serve as a metaphor for the awareness of being part of a cosmic whole. Drawing attention to the origins of objects, his photographs and sculptures bear the traces of their provenance while being inscribed by the passage of time.
The large scale abstract works of Jaana Maijala can be read as a map. Not a representation of parts of the earth’s surface in a geographical sense, but as records of her immediate emotional impressions of places. Her drawings seek to preserve situations through the rhythm of the pencil, an unconscious catharsis, which is then sealed through the act of photographing. In the work White Nights (2010) the artist has in her own words created “an altarpiece to the Nordic summers”.
With an interest in things as carriers of human traces, Tanja Koljonen continues to work with objets trouvés, such as books, photographs and fragments of written text, to explore the delicate line that exists between instinct and reason. Koljonen’s playful approach invites the viewer to interact and co-constitute the artworks, and thus displaces and affirms them as an open ended experience.
Kalle Kataila’s work takes its starting point in a live webcam feed from a beach in Hawaii, which he is watching from his studio in Helsinki. The most perceptive thinkers agree on a new paradigm- and a new presence- brought about with the advancements of digital technology, that enable us to “see” what is taking place all around the world. However, this appealing idea and voyeuristic exercise, poses certain philosophical questions. For is reality apprehended through the consciousness of it, and does it exist regardless of our participation in it?
-Maya Byskov
Displacement
Opening: Friday, March 13, 2015, 6 – 9 pm Duration of the exhibition: March 14 - April 25, 2015 Participating artists: Kalle Kataila, Tanja Koljonen Jaana Maijala and Mikko Rikala. Curated by Maya Byskov and Terhi Tuomi
Gallery Taik Persons is proud to present Displacement, the first in a series of curated group exhibitions showing new positions by young artists working with (and around) the medium of photography. The title of the show refers to the distance that exists between experience and memory, and the translation of one into the other. The works in this exhibition encourage the viewer to think about their points of contact with memory and their emotional and aesthetic experiences. The show questions how these points of contact are preserved in our minds and asks the question: is it possible to exist in two places at the same time? Sensory and finite encounters are articulated through the use of the photographic process with space for materiality in the form of sculptures, collages and film. The exhibition is centered around the works of four artists, who each propose alternative configurations of spatio/temporal displacement. All the artists in this show share an interest in conceptualizing landscapes, while at the same time proposing associations between emotional and physical experiences within these landscapes, and thus displacing these encounters, in time and place.
Structures of disintegration and decay as indicators of the inevitable, progressive passage of linear time define many of the works of Mikko Rikala. The themes of being drawn between diverging powers and elements, between the sea and the sky, matter and air, serve as a metaphor for the awareness of being part of a cosmic whole. Drawing attention to the origins of objects, his photographs and sculptures bear the traces of their provenance while being inscribed by the passage of time.
The large scale abstract works of Jaana Maijala can be read as a map. Not a representation of parts of the earth’s surface in a geographical sense, but as records of her immediate emotional impressions of places. Her drawings seek to preserve situations through the rhythm of the pencil, an unconscious catharsis, which is then sealed through the act of photographing. In the work White Nights (2010) the artist has in her own words created “an altarpiece to the Nordic summers”.
With an interest in things as carriers of human traces, Tanja Koljonen continues to work with objets trouvés, such as books, photographs and fragments of written text, to explore the delicate line that exists between instinct and reason. Koljonen’s playful approach invites the viewer to interact and co-constitute the artworks, and thus displaces and affirms them as an open ended experience.
Kalle Kataila’s work takes its starting point in a live webcam feed from a beach in Hawaii, which he is watching from his studio in Helsinki. The most perceptive thinkers agree on a new paradigm- and a new presence- brought about with the advancements of digital technology, that enable us to “see” what is taking place all around the world. However, this appealing idea and voyeuristic exercise, poses certain philosophical questions. For is reality apprehended through the consciousness of it, and does it exist regardless of our participation in it?
-Maya Byskov