HIPPOLYTE STUDIO
Kalevankatu 18 B, 00100 Helsinki
09 612 33 44, www.hippolyte.fi/studio
Open: Tue-Fri 12-17, Sat-Sun 12-16

5.-28.2.2010
Henrik Eriksson and Johanna Gustafsson Fürst
HENHEL-HIPPO

 

At the beginning Henrik Eriksson main aim was to build a sculpture by another artist, his friend, Johanna Gustafsson Fürst according to her instructions. However, after a while the interaction between the two artists took more important role and in the end their conversations and e-mails became an essential part of the collaboration. Henrik Eriksson hopes to find a way to present these alongside the sculpture.

The sculpture itself serves a more practical purpose as a bench that invites the viewer to sit down and at the same time it clarifies the gallery space resulting in an interaction between the three. As a result of the collaboration Eriksson is also exhibiting few of his photographic pieces from the series Norrlandskusten 21.12.2007. This is an on-going odyssey where a digital archive shot with a compact camera during one single day is slowly re-edited into a new journey.

The exhibition is a part of an ongoing Artist-in-Recidence Collaboration between CFF – Center for Photography, Stockholm (Sweden) and Photographic Gallery Hippolyte, Helsinki (Finland): www.hippolyte.fi/en/projekti/tiedote/2010/AiR_CFF_Hippolyte2010.html

Henrik Eriksson works in various media and often with new techniques for each project. He has a Masters degree from Royal University College of Fine Arts in Stockholm and he has been running the artist run gallery ak28 2003 – 2008 together with colleagues. He has had exhibitions in Sweden, Russia, Norway and Albania. Recently he had a solo show at Nordin Gallery, www.nordingallery.com. A selection of earlier works can be seen at www.henrikeriksson.com. The exhibition at Hippolyte Studio is collaboration with Swedish sculptor Johanna Gustafsson Fürst. Her work could be seen at www.gustafssonfurst.se. 

Information and press images:
Heli Luoma, Hippolyte Studio, +358 9 612 33 44, info[at]hippolyte.fi

(kuva/bild: Henrik Eriksson, from series Norrlandskusten 21.12.2007)