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In this exhibition…

I’m sitting on my father’s shoulders; smoke is rising from the frying pan; and the old dog is pissing around indifferently. The bubbling village is menacing but harmless, waiting for someone to shake it. There’s nothing left of sarcasm except the mouse ears.

I graduated as a painter in the spring of 2002. This is my third exhibition in Helsinki, and my eighth gallery exhibition.


Veera Tiainen
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The sculptures of the series "Arkimuunnelmia" (“Workaday variations”) seem to have sprung up like telephone doodles – as if someone had been sitting in the living room, letting the surrounding items function both as the starting point and as the construction material for pondering and thoughts. The works are made of furniture and lamps that have been bunched together. Some of them have been multiplied and then connected with each other at possible points of contact. In one of the works, the objects have bonded together like atoms in molecules, forming a temporary whole, while another work refers to growth or flow that is underway.

I want the works to function as connections between various possibilities. I wish the focus to flicker between the micro and macro levels of the size scale; the concrete and the abstract; and the workaday and all that is magnificent in the workaday.


The exhibition has been kindly supported by Konstsamfundet art association and the Alfred Kordelin Foundation.

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