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ANNA
PUHAKKA
From
Karelia Now and Before
Photographs
and sound installation
1.–31.7.2012
Exhibition
opening Saturday, April 30th 2012, 2 pm – 4 pm
The
questions Who
am I?
and Where
do I come from? are
the main themes in Anna Puhakka's exhibition From
Karelia Now and Before.
In this exhibition Puhakka is exploring her relationship with and
obsession towards her ancestors’ homeland Karelia. As a
cosmopolitan artist, who has lived over half her life abroad, Puhakka
returns to her ancestral roots through her art; to the world where
she learned to swim, to know the secrets of the forest and to believe
in the power of spells, words and nature.
Through
the exhibition Puhakka recreates her prehistory, treating her
existential crisis as a person who has never properly belonged
anywhere. In her work Puhakka becomes a high-priestess who controls
the Birth Words of souls, grows a forest and speaks with the voices
of the ancients. By combining traditional Karelian folklore and
moulding
it
into a new imaginary world, Puhakka whispers in and answers to the
wind with the questions: Who am I? Where do I come from?
The
From
Karelia Now and Before
exhibition
is part of a larger research project Yes,
I know your Birth,
where Puhakka researches ancient Karelian folklore and creates varied
ways to explore its existence in today’s society through rituals,
stories, music and customs; bringing it to the present day through
the use of media art.
Part
of the exhibition consists of a collaborative artwork made with local
residents. In this project the participants interpret what being a
modern Karelian means to them through writing and photography.
Project collaborators are the Eno School class 7A and the residents
of the Kotiranta retirement
home.
The project has been led by Anna Puhakka and Eva-Liisa Orupöld.
Puhakka
(b.1983, Tampere) has lived in Finland, the United States, Australia,
France and England. She graduated from Sunderland University in 2007
and has been an internationally practicing artist ever since. Puhakka
is also the curator and editor-in-chief of the monthly creative art
magazine, HESA inprint. Currently Puhakka lives and works in
Helsinki.
Anna
would like to thank the Äänellä Itkijät association for all their
support.
Anna Puhakka
+358 (0) 40 542 9934
puhakka.anna@gmail.com
www.annapuhakka.com
http://believeinprocess.blogspot.com
WON'T
CARRY ALONE FOR FUN
Instructors:
Anna
Puhakka and Eva-Liisa Orupõld
Participants:
Eno school class 7A and Kotiranta retirement home
Won't
Carry Alone for Fun
is a collaborative artwork that is part of the exhibition From
Karelia Now and Before
being held at Louhitalo in July 2012. The purpose of the project was
to create an artwork where, through the use of text and photography,
the locals could explore identity, the meaning of objects and what it
is to be a modern Karelian. During the project the participants were
asked to complete a task where they chose objects that are important
to them and described them creatively.
The
participants then brought their objects and texts along to a one-day
workshop held in Eno on the 24th
of May 2012. During the workshops the objects were exchanged,
then in groups the participants thought of possible connections the
objects had to each other; stories were told. Then the participants
shared their memories of the objects and chose a word that could
connect them, something which described their similarities.
After
this their chosen connector-words were visually interpreted by
photographing both the objects and participants. The content of the
work Won't
Carry Alone for Fun
has been compiled from the photographs and texts made by the
participants. During the workshop the participants learned to work
with people of different ages and got to know each other.
The
hanging and compiling of the artwork was done by the workshop leaders
Eva-Liisa Orupöld and Anna Puhakka.
The
artwork and exhibition opening takes place on Saturday the 30th of
June from 2 pm to 4 pm at Louhitalo, Heintie
16, 81200 Eno,
Louhioja.
The
exhibition is open 1.-31.7.2012 , from Monday to Sunday between 12 pm
and 5 pm.
Contact
details for the workshop leaders:
Anna
Puhakka
+358
(0) 40 542 9934
puhakka.anna@gmail.com
www.annapuhakka.com
http://believeinprocess.blogspot.com
Eva-Liisa
Orupöld
+358
(0) 44 333 5806
orupold@gmail.com
http://orupold.blogspot.com
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