Eg vil bjóða vælkomin til myndlistarliga
partin av finsku vikuni í Norðurlandahúsinum. Eg vil takka tykkum øllum fyri,
at tit eru her. Tað er ein gleði at kunna deila listina við tykkum. Og so vil
eg takka Norðurlandahúsinum, sum eg haldi gevur okkum øllum nakað sera
týdningarmikið við at hyggja út í heim, og við at vísa okkum, hvussu nógvir
møguleikar rúmast í listini. Tit gera, at her verður hægri til loftið. Tað eri
eg sera takksom fyri.
Men, her eru eisini onnur til
staðar, sum eg gjarna vil takka, og tað verður á enskum, so tey øll skilja tað.
Dear artists
We are very proud
and happy to be able to present no less than three exhibitions today, and glad
that, thanks to you, the visual arts are
playing such a big and strong role in this festival.
So thank you. Thanks to the Lithographic Workshop Steinprent and their
exhibiting artists: Outi Heiskanen, Anna Seppälä and
Ilona Raipala, warm thanks to Tita Vinther and finally our special thanks to
Terike Haapoja.
Questions arise, when we are so lucky as to experience
great art. Questions concerning human beings as species of nature, part of a
whole rather than individuals may arise, when we are
experiencing Tita Vinther’s magnificient sail, which is woven from human hair,
but seems to weave together an endless number of stories, associations and
meanings, through its motif, its structure and form, and its use of emptiness
and fullness. Just as questions concerning the forces of nature, and human
battle against these forces may arise, when we are experiencing one of Anna
Seppälä’s poetic pieces, in which trees or birds appear in barren human made
environments with countless rhythmic rows of houses and monotonous patterns of
synthetic stone and glass.
Some of these questions reappear in Terike
Haapoja´s installation “Community” that treats the concept of entropy. Entropy
is for instance described as the degradation of the matter and energy in the
universe to an ultimate state of inert uniformity and as the degree of
disorder, randomness, uncertainty and chaos in a system.
In “Community” we witness and become part of the death of a horse, a calf,
a dog, a cat and a bird. We see how their body heat falls and vanishes, we
experience how they slowly fade and finally and irreversibly disappear into
their surroundings – just as we, being part of the same ecosystem, the same
community as this horse, this calf, this dog, this cat and this bird, will fade
and disappear into our surroundings, when we die.
Terike Haapoja make these invisible facts
visible, she puts into aesthetic form the concept of entropy, and finds
artistic possibilities in letting us
taking part in a community. She lets technology, nature, art, science, politics
and environmental ethics meet, and thereby she gives us the possibility to
question the focus of society on individuality, on “us” and “them”, on
production and overproduction, to question how we treat the environment and
exclude fellow beings. And for that we are very thankful.
So thanks, once again, Terike Haapoja, as well as Tita Vinther and
Steinprent.
