Meetings in paintings
2008-2010,
Silisec, 110 x 115 cm, 110 x 137, 90 x 100 cm
How one experiences art is very subjective and it reflects the viewer’s own state of mind or then it opens the pathway to some type of emotion or feeling. I chose the kind of paintings that continuously speak to you again and again. Sometimes the message is different than before. Often there is some captivating riddle in the paintings. What was the artist thinking about while they were painting? Is it so that it is also a riddle to the artists themselves, a riddle to which an answer has not yet been found? Can one step into a painting? The oddity of the perspective or the distortions of the dimensions are very different than those in the photographs. Is the state of a painting achievable by means of photography if we presume it to be real or to exist? The idea behind my work is my own experience with paintings. Through my experiences I have tried to stir up motion, or breathe life into a static state. The question is: is the other’s viewing experience similar to that of paintings?
- Sleeper, 100 x 110 cm, silisec
- Painting, smoking,eating, 110 x 137 cm, silisec
- Documentation from solo exhibition Mältinranta, Tampere
- Apple eater, 110 x 150 cm, silisec
- Painting 1, video, still image
- Couple in bed, 90 x 100 cm, silisec
- Weeping girl, 80 x 100 cm, silisec
- Painting 1-3, 30 x 45 cm, silisec
- Painting 2, video, still image