‘SUBSTRUCTERS’ was a solo-exhibition at Oksasenkatu 11 gallery in Helsinki, Finland on view during September 2023.
‘SUBSTRUCTURES’ is a mixed media installation that investigates the seemingly insignificant elements of urban landscapes. The site-specific work through various media and artistic techniques attempts to display the texture of the city, and its hidden structures that are essential but invisible in many ways, such as scaffolding, building foundations, supporting skeletons of constructions, etc. The large-scale work is imagined to be a sort of visual echo of these hidden territories.
The installation consists of black recycled ropes and Japanese papers with a multiplied printed composition of exterior house cladding and relief prints. By focusing on the dialogue between these materials and their shadows in the surroundings, the entire exhibition room becomes an abstract realm, where these materials lose their physicality and blend into each other.
Through the diversity of form, mediums, and content, I created a unique possibility to not only look but also understand moments of never-visible states. A pause to stand still and be surprised by substructures in the middle of a city.
This project is supported by the Nordic-Baltic Mobility Programme for Culture (@nordiskkulturkontakt )
