Supermarket 2011
18-20.2.2011
Kulturhuset, Sergels Torg
Stockholm
http://supermarketartfair.com/
PHOTOGRAPHIC GALLERY HIPPOLYTE - ADVENTURE IN INCOMPLETENESS
See also: List of Works [pdf]
WILMA HURSKAINEN
www.wilmahurskainen.comIn the series No name, Wilma Hurskainen deals with the themes of childhood and memory. Childhood and adulthood, like layers, are present in the same photograph. She re-creates her memories (also false and invented ones) and continues the visual representation of these memories by loosely attaching texts to the images. Wilma Hurskainen (1979) lives and works in Helsinki.
Wilma Hurskainen, Horse, 2007MILJA LAURILA
www.miljalaurila.comIntegrating photographs with text, her works focus on the link between photography and memory and on the interplay of images and words. In the series To remember, old documents and pictures from the family album are combined with new images using multiple exposures. "My photographs are not recollections but rather images of forgetting, memories I am unable to reach." Milja Laurila (1982) lives and works in Helsinki.
Milja Laurila, To remember (sole), 2005NOOMI LJUNGDELL
www.noomiljungdell.comNoomi Ljungdell works conceptually in several media and increasingly so with texts. In her work, she aims to stretch the limits of representation though image and language. The subject of her work is often related to specific sites, the experience of being in a place and the difficulty to share that experience. The use of text is a means for Ljungdell to bring the work closer to the viewer and shorten the gap between viewing and creating. Noomi Ljungdell (1979) lives and works in Helsinki.
Noomi Ljungdell, Ett hus, 2011PEKKA NIITTYVIRTA
www.niittyvirta.comPekka Niittyvirta’s work contains a strong dimension of improvisation and intuition, and it often reaches out far beyond his main tool – the camera. The abstract glamour of the visual effects has been produced utilizing the knowledge of digital, biological and chemical processes. The image in the work, Beach (Chromosome X), 2008 is modified by insertion of genetic data sequences (Human chromosome X) in the source code of the digital file of the image. Pekka Niittyvirta (1974) lives and works in Helsinki.
Pekka Niittyvirta, Beach (Chromosome X), 2008MARJA PIRILÄ
www.marjapirila.comMarja Pirilä has specialized in camera obscura and used it in many of her projects over the past two decades. Speaking House is a series of photographs Pirilä has made in an abandoned house which used to be a mental hospital. The series Interior/Exterior consist of images photographed inside ordinary rooms transformed into camera obscuras. The photographs in this series are not only a charting of the living environment of a person, but also of the landscapes of the mind: reflections of thoughts, dreams, fears and reveries. Marja Pirilä (1957) lives and works in Tampere.
Marja Pirilä, Speaking house #22, 2006HARRI PÄLVIRANTA
www.harripalviranta.comHarri Pälviranta’s artistic interests lie in societal topics, including issues relating to violence and masculinity. The series News portrait relates to everyday minor news stories, which create an impression of what is normal. When one fishes out all the gun and shooting related news stories from the news stream, gun culture starts appearing as distressing, even tragicomic. Portraits are constructed from shooting-related news clippings from newspapers and Internet news portals. Each picture consists of 1050 news headlines, each of these clippings acts like an individual picture, altogether these images create a portrait of a person. Harri Pälviranta (1971) lives and works in Helsinki.
Harri Pälviranta, News Portrait #2 (potential school shooter, Finland), 2010TUOMO RAINIO
www.tuomorainio.fiTRACESCAPE is series of video works about social structure in public space. In urban space a persons behavior is observed and controlled by others and by themselves. Everyone has a possibility to step out from the form and differ from the crowd. In these videos Tuomo Rainio has used a self-made computer program, which draws the image of the movements, so that anything that moves leaves a trace in the image. The most commonly used movements are the brightest ones. By performing in the videos, Rainio has drawn his own trace usually in opposition to the regular movements. In some videos you see him forming a shape of a square or circle by walking around a specific form. But in some videos a visible form does not emerge, because his presence is faded by the quantity of other movements. Tuomo Rainio (1983) lives and works in Helsinki.
Tuomo Rainio, Untitled (faded square), 2006 (videostill)HANNELE RANTALA
”Har du sett denna kvinna? (Have you seen this woman?) is a social sculpture, an installation. My father’s oldest sister was a variety dancer, who died in Stockholm after the war in unknown circumstances. In 2008, I made an art project, searching for information about my aunt. In my father’s belongings, I found a publicity photograph of my aunt from which I made a poster that I spread in the hundreds in Stockholm, and later in Viborg and Helsinki, which were my aunts home towns. In the posters I requested to be contacted by letter to Poste Restante. I received no replies.”
Most of Hannele Rantala’s works are processes that result in temporary site-specific work. She deals with departures, homelessness and change, spaces or situations on the border. Hannele Rantala (1952) lives and works in Helsinki.
Hannele Rantala, Har du sett denna kvinna?, 2008JARI SILOMÄKI
www.jarisilomaki.comJari Silomäki makes images of phenomena in society and events in today’s world. Recurring themes are the expectations set by society, failure and violence. All the images have a close link to reality, even though some of them are staged. The staged images are reconstructions of events that the artist has seen or heard. The series Alienation Stories focuses on the side effects of a performance oriented society. It depicts people on the verge of loosing grip with reality. Jari Silomäki (1975) works and lives in Helsinki.
Jari Silomäki, from the series Alienation Stories, 2009-2011ANNE YLI-IKKELÄ
Anne Yli-Ikkelä inspects, contemplates and plays. Yli-Ikkelä constructs a world in which everything and nothing is possible. In the series, Excerpts from Adventures, she recounts stories with a helping hand from paper. A large empty white surface is full of possibilities. The laws of physics are broken and new and at times frightening things are encountered. Ships and airplanes appear in rooms and the voyage across the Atlantic can begin. Without any worries. Anne Yli-Ikkelä (1980) lives and works in Helsinki.
Anne Yli-Ikkelä, Airplane, 2008-2009
