Visiting hours:
July 16 at 6 pm to 9 pm opening night
July 17-24, 2 pm-7pm
You’ve probably sometimes found a figurative shape in a rain cloud. Did your companion see the same? Hardly. He saw something completely different in the cloud - yet both of you saw correctly.
As in rain clouds or ink clouds, everyone can see and hear their own version in the works of artist Henna Matanuska. Welcome to sound, footprint and free interpretation!
Matanuska gives space to randomness in her art. She doesn’t want to control the outcome. The work starts with a ready-made idea, but the starting point is always followed by letting go. Known as a band dancer and circus artist, Matanuska has previously recorded movement and sound on paper in her works.
The media that unites all the works in Asbestos Art Space’s Resonoise exhibition is sound. Some works use the human voice, others the synthesizer. Traces of carbon and dry pastel visible on white and black papers are carried by sound waves, as well as on brown-colored photo paper, where water mixed with pastel changes the shape into a flowing one. Matanuska has used a microphone, an amplifier and a speaker to move the pigment.
The works now on view can be approached through the four elements of the classics. The dry pastel represents the country; water turns pastel into mud; coal is wood licked by fire; sound waves vibrate in the air. In Henna Matanuska's art, a concrete imprint always seems to seek contact with the spheres of space.
Text: Pasi Salonen @taiteensanallistaja
