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I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.

The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning. *

At Galleria Huuto, I present photographs, objects, and a video, all of which have been finished during 2008.

The core of the exhibition is the tension that is created from the need to tell something and the inability to express oneself.

We reach beyond ourselves and express our feelings of existing by means of language. However, words are often a hollow and frustratingly inadequate tool. According to Godard, “the words don’t say what I say. The pictures, words, and objects of the exhibition refer to meanings and struggle against them. In addition to language, I’m interested in changes, and fascinated by the different manifestations of desire for change and people’s attempts to adapt to changes. Muteness, abandonment (of language) and homelessness are themes that I repeat in my works, and these elements are present at the Galleria Huuto exhibition as well.

While supervising the exhibition, I’ll work on a large writing on the wall. Using letters about 8 inches high, I’ll create sentences on the wall. Some of them are my own, and some are quotations from numerous sources. The writing on the wall will change at least once a day, probably more often. I want to present single thoughts disconnected from their contexts; black letters against the white walls of the gallery.

The exhibition at Galleria Huuto is the third solo exhibition of artist Mikko Kuorinki (1977–).

He was born in Rovaniemi, Northern Finland, and lives in Helsinki. Kuorinki has studied at the Arts Academy at Turku University of Applied Sciences as well as the University of Art and Design Helsinki from which he graduated in 2008.

Press pictures: www.kuorinki.com/huuto.html

Additional info: tel. +358 50 3529643 / mikko(at)kuorinki.com / www.kuorinki.com

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Näin päin

Jarno Vesala´s (b.1977) exhibition Näin päin leads to the landscapes of  irrational fear and childhood nightmares.

It is easy to deny  the fear of unnatural in daylight, but alone in the dark the irrational fear can easily take over. Ghosts become real when they give even a small sign of their excistence. Sound of footsteps from the stairwell or sound of  knocking behind the wall can release the irrational fear at the night time.

Adult disquised as a ghost by wearing a sheet can be funny or even slighty pathetic. There was always at least one child dressed as a ghost in the childhood masquerade. Ghost-costume was easy way out when you didn´t have any better idea. Covered by a white sheet also points to the death. Corpses  are covered with sheets in  hospitals.  Also in empty houses, furnitures are covered with sheets. The sheet sends a message of absence. Whatever is  hidden under the sheet, it is in there and gone at the same time: going somewhere. Jarno Vesala´s work Sininen uni/Blue dream, 2008 is  reminding us about irrational fear and precense of death but bringing out these guestions comical way.

Jarno Vesala tells about his works and working as follows:
“My works are mainly installations with a sound and a video. I aspire to revieve a guestions of  a human behavior with a small gesture or with a delicate atmosphere. I make installations where the viewer is a character among the other characters in a staged scene.
Characters are living in a moment that seems to be  delicate and/or  neutral but where you can sense upcoming or just happened transition. Transition can be related to the death, happiness or to a moment when the character is completely losing itself. Sense of these transitions creates an interesting and important tension between the character and the viewer. To Gallery Huuto I´ve made the characters by using a different materials including as an example sound and video.With sound, suggestive objects, video and lightning, I  create an absurd and atmospheric space where  the characters are meeting and sensing each other.

Exhibition is composed of two installations that blend together. Familiar horrorimages from childhood and horror movies are living in their stagnant moments. Innocentlike horrorimages from childhood can still bring you fear when you are much older. What makes a human under  detergent smelling white clean sheet so scary?”

Katri Mononen