Arabian asukastalot ry

Ingrid Andrén taidetta Kääntöpaikan galleriatilassa kesä-heinäkuun ajan

i n t i m a t i o n s
and / and / and
Soft Sculptures
Ingrid André

Kääntöpaikka Gallery Arabia, Helsinki
2.6 – 28.7.22
Open on Thursdays 10 – 18 (visible partly from the windows)

i n t i m a t i o n s
and / and / and is a series of soft sculptures made of mixed fabrics, clay, acrylic paint, and ink.
The shaping process involves repetitive gestures of drowning the fabrics in clay, marking, folding, and activating them, hiding the marks, excavating them again. I try not to interfere, I stay with and make sure they become, yet I am there. The constant blend of time, body, and meaning currenting through.
The stitches are kept precarious, their stability never fully secured. The edges of the fabrics are gathered close, merged,
overtaken by each other, eventually figuring out, naming themselves along the way. The positions stiffen with time, the folds question what gets focus and what stays hidden.
Shaping the linear fabrics feels like writing and reading at the same time along my biographic bodily happening – self-reflective sudden memories, possible auto-fictions, unfamiliar meanings and shifts in perception – an odd manifestation of fluidity along with
fixities, punctuations, and recurrent forces.
Briefly transgressing my daily narratives, these intimations fill with time and linger on, breeding otherness and intimate together.

Ingrid André is a Belgian born artist based in Helsinki since 2006. She works across contemporary dance and visual arts and is currently finishing her studies in the field of perceptual pedagogy / FULL PRESENCE practice (founded by Ph.D. Danis Bois).
As a perceptual practitioner and pedagogue, she works with both
individual and groups.
Ingrid is interested in how intimate and collective weave themselves together in beings, in bodies, and how they express.
She is curious about what makes and thinks a body. Her work involves practicing thinking, listening, telling, and encountering from elsewhere…from another place in/of us.
Contact & social media
ingrid.catherine.andre(at)gmail.com
ingrid__andre
ingrid.andre
Portfolio www.ingridcatherinea.myportfolio.com
With the support of a Covid grant for artists from TAIKE Arts Promotion
Centre Finland.

Hei, minä olen Huriye Genc, syntynyt 1985 Turkissa. Valmistuin Marmaran yliopistosta kemian opettajaksi, työskentelin opettajana jonkin aikaa Turkissa vuoden 2016 tapahtumien takia, jouduin pakenemaan ulkomaille. Ateenassa noin kymmenen kuukauden asumisen jälkeen tulin Suomeen kesäkuussa 2019. Kun menetin työni, aloin taas maalata, mistä olen ollut kiinnostunut lapsuudesta asti. Minä en ole ammattitaidemaalari eikä minulla ole koulutusta taidealalta. Olen asunut Suomessa kaksi ja puoli vuotta. Olen opiskelemassa suomen kieltä.
Inspiraation lähteeni maalauksissa ovat kokemani tapahtumat tai minua järkyttäneet epäoikeudenmukaisuudet. Olen myös kiinnostunut muotokuvien ja maiseman maalaamisesta. Teen maalaukseni öljymaalilla, siveltimellä tai maalausveitsi tekniikalla, joskus molemmilla yhdessä.

Yhteydenotot: hurisafi(at)gmail.com

Laura Hasanen is a Finnish-American artist currently based in Helsinki. She received her BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 2015. She is currently pursuing her MA in Nordic Visual Studies and Art Education at Aalto University.

Laura works primarily as a papermaker and sculptor. Her work focuses on the relationship between body and material, drawing inspiration from embodied investigation and spontaneous reactions that derive from engaging with various mediums. She often works with themes of connectedness, caring, and the human body.

Oh, I Thought I Could Contain it
“…grief displays the ways in which we are in the thrall of our relations with others that we cannot always recount or explain, that often interrupts the self-conscious account of ourselves we might try to provide in ways that challenge the very notion of ourselves as autonomous and in control.”
Judith Butler, Undoing Gender

“One does not always stay intact. It may be that one wants to, or does, but it may also be that despite one’s best efforts, one is undone, in the face of the other, by the touch, by the scent, by the feel, by the prospect of touch, by the memory of the feel.”
Judith Butler, Undoing Gender

Oh I Thought I Could Contain it is an exploration of Butler’s concept of undone-ness through material. The works serve as a way to capture shifting states of containment and release/ vulnerability and impenetrability. Through material exploration, I’m attempting to show how these states make visible the ephemerality, vulnerability, and permeability of being in relation.

”Osana itseäni”

”Vuosi sitten ostettuani ensimmäiset siveltimeni ja akryylimaalini, ihan vain kokeillakseni, huomasin minkä takia en ikinä aikaisemmin ole innostunut mistään kokeilemastani harrastuksesta tai lajista. Pienestä asti olen tykännyt piirtää ja toteuttaa ajatuksiani paperille, mutta että osaisinko maalata? Tai onko minussa oikeasti olemassa jonkinlaista luovuutta tai luomisen taitoa?
Tämän vuoden sisällä en ainoastaan ole oppinut eri materiaaleista ja tekniikoista vaan paljon myös itsestäni, jonka takia maalaamisesta on tullut enemmänkin itsensä ilmaisua.
– Tässä ensimmäisessä näyttelyssäni haluan korostaa minulle isointa inspiraation lähdettä, eli luontoa. Näyttelyssä näkyy figuratiivista sekä abstraktia taidetta, jotka ovat molemmat lähellä sydäntäni.”

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Yhteydenotot: nokkalak(at)gmail.com