LIISA PESONEN
The title of Liisa Pesonen’s exhibition, Space, refers to the regions between the artist, the viewer and the work, and their interrelationships. In the space inside the work Pesonen conducts a dialogue with painting, but a space can form between the viewer and the work, too. These works, which contain conceptual ideas, are varied in style. Pesonen effortlessly combines features of the low-key, tentative, stripped-down exterior of minimalism with bold, resolute expressive language and colour-field painting.
SAMPO APAJALAHTI
At first sight Sampo Apajalahti’s paintings are hard to decipher. They contain expansive, empty spaces and are devoid of visible human presence. In one picture we see a board with a photograph taped to it, but on closer inspection we realize that it is all a skilfully painted illusion. Apajalahti’s paintings often contain a “picture within a picture”, which he uses to challenge habitual ways of looking. He thus calls into question what is to be identified as the object of the gaze – the painting itself or the (painted) photograph contained in it.
Meet the artists on Sunday September 15, 2019 at 2 pm.
