Avajaiset:
12.4. 18-22
Aukioloajat:
12.-14.4.2022 12-19
'Myself’ never coincides with my image; for it is the image which is heavy, motionless, stubborn (which is why society sustains it, and 'myself' which is light, divided, dispersed; like a bottle-imp, 'myself' doesn’t hold still, giggling in my jar..." (Roland Barthes)
I am a shoe and I'm looking at my image. The image proves that I exist, I'm alive, but by referring to the past it claims that I'm dead. Where am I? What happened? I remember stepping from a clay tile into a dark kiln-room and I remember stepping out as different. I was gleaming, cracked, I was sprawled and vanished, I pushed from the surface and submerged in it. I practiced relinquishing and surrendered to the change. My image is a fragment of events, but I am still here (waiting at the coat rack).
Displayed works Workshoes (Dark Chamber) and Workshoes (Light Chamber) are part of Aura Latva-Somppis MA thesis' artistic production for Aalto ARTS Contemporary Design major. In her thesis Latva-Somppi researches the ontology of change in artistic process, the dramaturgy between the material and the makers intention and the magnitude of relinquishing.
Aura Latva-Somppi (1995) is a Helsinki-based visual artist. By relying on excitement and intuition she currently uses ceramics as her medium to contemplate life and sociocultural phenomenon. She is captivated by ceramics’ cultural-historically established position and allegorical nature as well as its playful and constantly surprising character. Her works have been recently exhibited i.a. in Amos Rex, Helsinki Design Week, Lokal gallery, Glasshouse Helsinki, Kosminen gallery and Kulttuurihalli.