HIPPOLYTE STUDIO
Kalevankatu 18 B, 00100 Helsinki
09 612 33 44, www.hippolyte.fi/studio
Open: Tue-Fri 12-17, Sat-Sun 12-16
9.4-2.5.2010
Mikko Kuorinki
DISSOLVING SIGN
I am standing at a pier, right
where it makes contact with
firmer ground.The videos and photographic works comprising the Dissolving Sign exhibition were for the most part made in 2009 during a three-month residency in Frankfurt, Germany.
The central theme of the exhibition is language, a force that both brings order to the world and undermines it. Kuorinki's works take place in that precarious moment when sensation or perception enters the purview of language. Words reach out towards perceptible reality, trying to process and to understand; they tell stories and mislead the listener. Language communicates, shares, signifies and vanishes.
The object of perception is the physical reality that surrounds us: the motion of light, the temperature of the air, the choreography of a passing flock of birds. The meaning of the world is revealed in its details.
In addition to Mikko Kuorinki's own photographic and textual pieces, the exhibition also includes a series of videos made in collaboration with the American artist Alexandr Skarlinski. In the videos, texts by Skarlinski engage in a dialogue with hypnotic visuals shot by Kuorinki.
The themes of Dissolving Sign continue in a small-scale exhibition entitled Tiny Energies, presented in the HIAP Project Room at the Cable Factory in Helsinki from 21 April to 9 May 2010.
The exhibition has received funding from the National Council for Photographic Art
Mikko Kuorinki (b. 1977) is a visual artist born in Rovaniemi and living in Helsinki. The starting point of Kuorinki's work is often conceptual: he investigates the experiences of existence, alienation and rootlessness using the media of photography, video, performance and installation art.
Alexandr Skarlinski is an artist who lives and works in Baltimore Maryland US. HIs work, albeit often considered "conceptual", deals with fairly reoccurring themes of sex, notions of romance, youth culture, and supposed reality.
Information and press images:
Heli Luoma, Hippolyte Studio, +358 9 612 33 44, info[at]hippolyte.fi
(Mikko Kuorinki Walk with a Dissolving Sign 2009 )
