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I am interested in space and the definitions that are left in the middle of dual concepts, such as sublime – banal, structural – abstract, sexual – spiritual, inner – outer, natural – artificial, two- and three-dimensional. In addition, my works have been influenced by ideas of gender conditions, gender as an experience to live in, the state of being, and order.

For me, working in itself is a means of focusing on life, the world, and the moment of creating a particular work. It is an attempt to analyze matters and, on the other hand, to realize their detachment. It is not so much a question of organizing thoughts and feelings as that of bringing forth a sort of a space – an opportunity. Images, memories, and emotions are compressed by working methods into entities that are shaped into an unforeseen direction by the moment of creation and by time. The moments and images brought back to us by memory are disjoined. They do not become clear, connected narrations anymore. The incomplete becomes finished at the moment of relinquishing.

My paintings are a part of space in relation to each other and the location where they are shown. The works installed in the gallery enter into a dialogue and power struggle with each other, concerning their context.


E-mail: tiina.raitanen(at)gmail.com
Tel. +358 44 5728997

 

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My exhibition at Galleria Huuto includes conversations, memories, and stories that I have dressed into hair.

My installation “Kampaamo” (Hairdresser’s) is a workshop with everything that is needed for dressing memories into hair. There are pictures of hairstyles and stories related to them on the walls.

Hairstyles often resemble paintings of landscapes and this is why my salon is like an artist’s work space. The comb and the hairbrush are the paintbrushes of my atelier. A model takes a seat, and I will work a portrait into their hair. Our conversation is the basis for the picture. This makes these hairstyles landscapes as well as portraits. Whether they are pictures is questionable since the model, the theme, and the work are but one.

The hairdresser’s is open during the exhibition. If they wish, visitors may get a hairdo which will then be presented, as pictures, in the exhibition.

The video work “Maisema” (Landscape) is about the creation of an image of a landscape. The landscape is in constant change – change of the earth’s surface, growth of trees and hair, and the different memories of two people.


Markus Tuormaa (formerly Perälä)
+35840 7732817
markus.tuormaa(at)muu.fi

The exhibition has been kindly supported by:
The Finnish Cultural Foundation
University of Art and Design Helsinki