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I often return to the same landscape, the same image. The sky lays low over the snow-covered fields. The light comes from below. The distances and proportions of the landscape are easier to see when it’s quiet.

The beauty of a landscape is hidden in its sorrow, writes Ahmed Rasin. I like the way beauty and sorrow meet in a snowy landscape. There are touches of things to come and of transience. I cannot keep, control, or possess the beauty of the snowy fields. The landscape will not remain white forever. A moment knows when it has passed, writes Fernando Pessoa.

My works are attempts to hold on to what cannot be held on to. They are a means of saying goodbye and letting go. The sculptures and the drawings illustrate single moments and elements of the landscape. I do not create an entire landscape or an entire story – my works are references that leave space for the non-verbal and the undefined.


The exhibition has been kindly supported by the Finnish Cultural Foundation.


Eeva-Maija Priha
eevamaija.priha(at)gmail.com

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My exhibition “Symptoms of enlightenment” mainly consists of paintings that have been created from snapshots. They feature authentic Finnish everyday situations.

Today’s social tension – inequality, alienation, and poverty – can be seen in my works. Most of the paintings are watercolors.


Jaakko Heikkinen