28.4.–16.5.2018
IN ME REMEMBERS
Paintings and a boat
Welcome! Step into Memory’s Holy Room – my grandfather’s old boat and my life’s scribbles and stiches sewn into it in jute twine.
Twenty years ago the subject started to weigh down on me. In 1999 with the help of Alfred Kordelin Foundation’s grant I started to collect material for “Finnish wooden boat – artifact and experience”. For the last two and a half years I have been darning the boat with jute twine.
To me, the boat is full of meaning, symbolism and memories of my grandparents, my childhood family and my life. The work is also important to me personally in ways that I cannot consciously capture.
In many of the parts the boat is very fragile and while darning the cracks I might have opened new ones. This mending will never be finished!
The unnamed emotions awakened by this work I paint. The base material and the paints direct my mind where they want. I wonder from one image space to another, and the story continues, as long as I am willing to go along. It feels like everything was created accidentally.
The Kalasatama worksite visible from my window interjects into the images. The landscape holds so much power it is ready to disintegrate, and it feels like I am testing how much of it I can use before I reach the limit. – Inkeri Makkonen
In gratitude: Gallerist Christina Bäcksbacka, Taidesalonki – Konstsalongen; author Helinä Siikala; artist Olavi Suomela
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Minussa muistaa / Det minns i mig
Vene_ja juuttinaru, 525 x 125 x 70 cm, 2018 / Båt och jutesnöre, 525 x 125 x 70 cm, 2018 (Kuva: Jussi Tiainen) -
Että putoaisin yhä ylemmäs / Att jag skulle falla allt högre
Öljy kakskomposiittilevylle, 48 x 100 cm, 2018 / Olja på aluminiumkompositpanel, 48 x 100 cm, 2018 (Kuva: Jussi Tiainen) -
Sinne ei ole polkua, ja vielä kauemmaksi / Det finns ingen stig, och ännu längre
Öljy kakskomposiittilevylle, 48 x 198 cm, 2018 / Olja på aluminiumkompositpanel, 48 x 198 cm, 2018 (Kuva: Jussi Tiainen) -
Uniinsa paenneet / De som flytt till sina drömmar
Sekatekniikka, 40 x 77 cm, 2017 / Blandteknik. 40 x 77 cm, 2017 -
Voi Perkele – Kalasatama I / Fan också - Fiskehamnen I
Öljypastelli kakskomposiittilevylle, 100 x 70 cm, 2017 / Oljepastell på aluminiumkompositpanel, 100 x 70 cm, 2017 (Kuva: Jouko Vatanen) -
Savua ja tulta – Kalasatama II / Rök och eld - Fiskehamnen II
Öljypastelli kakskomposiittilevylle, 60 x 120 cm, 2017 / Oljepastell på aluminiumkompositpanel, 60 x 120 cm, 2017 (Kuva: Jouko Vatanen)