TWO SIGNATURES
Nelli Tanner and Laura Ukkonen
4.8.–26.8.2018
Gallery Oksasenkatu 11
open:
Tue-Fri 14-18, Sat-Sun 12-16
Oksasenkatu
11, 00100 Helsinki, FIN
More information: Anastasia Isakova, nastya.isakova@gmail.com, 044 9881528
More information: Anastasia Isakova, nastya.isakova@gmail.com, 044 9881528
www.oksasenkatu11.fi
Opening Aug
3rd 6-8 pm.
Eyes. Face. A
water tab. Water. Soap. Water. A towel.
A water tab. Soap. Water. A water tab. A towel. A shower handle. Water. A shampoo bottle.
Water. A conditioner bottle. Water. A towel. Lotion.
(Detail from Morning
-sound work, Nelli Tanner, 2018)
Home and self-portraits are on
close look in videos, drawings and sound works by Nelli Tanner and Laura
Ukkonen. The artists’ observations on their everyday life and artistic
processes reflect on past fine artists’ works – Elin Danielson-Gambogi
(1861-1919) ja Ellen Thesleff (1869-1964) –
whose works depict self-portraits, mother-child images and home artifacts.
How is home, taking care of children and artistic work combined? It is presence
that is simultaneously being too close and too far.
The artists find Ellen and Elin
inspiring in their courage, concentration and travelling in time when women usually
stayed home. They took their own space and chose art as a profession. They were driven by a passion to make
better, more touching and more beautiful art. Tanner and Ukkonen confront them
as colleagues and as women they ponder similar things – updated to contemporary
society.
TWO SIGNATURES is the artists’
first exhibition as a work group. It’s based on conversations and drawings sent
to each other. Ukkonen works in Helsinki and Tanner in Imatra. The dialogue has
developed in phone calls, emails, face to face talks and in skype during the
past year. The exhibition space is an experimentation where their art works
meet for the first time.
Nelli Tanner (1976) is a visual artist from Imatra who works
with jewellery art, installations and public art works.
Tanner has graduated from Gerrit
Rietveld Academie (BA) in 2003 and from Saimaa University of Applied Sciences
(Master of Culture and Arts) in 2012. Tanner’s works are in collections of CODA
museum, Apeldoorn (NL) and Designmuseum (FIN). The work is based on the
relationships with our everyday life objects and broken home artifacts. Tanner
also depicts our habits with objects by making videos.
Working of the artist has been
supported by Arts Promotion Centre Finland.
Laura Ukkonen (1977) is a visual artist based in Helsinki
working with drawings, writing and moving image. She completed her MA in Fine Arts
at Aalto University in 2012. Her studies also consist of art history and gender
studies in University of Turku (BA) and on-going studies in art education at
Aalto University. Ukkonen’s works are
landscapes, portraits and interiors based in everyday life documentations
reflecting art history and gender studies. Can contemporary emotions be
understood in relation to the past?
www.nellitanner.com I email info@nellitanner.com
http://lauraukkonen.blogspot.com I email ukkonen.laura@gmail.com
http://lauraukkonen.blogspot.com I email ukkonen.laura@gmail.com
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