“The inner regions do not comply with language, they tow toward where words cannot be.” With all as flakes in space, what is to make with words of Fergus Feehily’s exhibition, symposium (and now, book)? (Continues…)
Around Journal launches a new segment titled Portfolio, which presents carefully curated selections from emerging visual artists. The monthly portfolio posts will contain occasional snaps from the creative’s archives while focusing on their latest output. The first one out is a dreamy assortment by Helsinki-based photographer and visual artist Evelin Kask. (Continues..)
Lotta Wennäkoski’s Until the Dreams at times feels like a crowd assembled to shout at you, a comic play and a love song to Finland. Composed for the 90th anniversary of the Radio Symphony Orchestra and the 117-year-old Polytech Choir, Wennäkoski writes odes about love that almost soothe you, if her complex rhythms weren’t creating such a sense of excitement, even at times wonder. (Continues…)
Our lives have always been governed by circles. From the globe on which we live, to the rising of the sun and the pull of the moon, we have replicated and incorporated this enigmatic shape into ancient rituals, famous artworks, science and mathematics since time began. The Circle is the main concept in Pantone’s colour forecast for Autumn / Winter 2019-20 as the trend for colourful living continues. (Continues…)
The interrelations between mankind and nature set the ground for Peter Holliday’s photographic work. In his current exhibition The Mountain of Fire, featuring images from his series Where the Land Rises, he investigates themes of absence and remembrance by studying the volcanic eruption of Eldfell on the island of Heimaey in 1973 in Iceland. (Continues…)
Helsinki-based menswear line FRENN mixes traditional suiting and casual style serving the demands of modern living. Around Journal interviewed founders Jarkko Kallio and Antti Laitinen on their label’s latest collaboration with visual artist Stig Baumgartner. Individualism, sustainability and athleisure are today’s key words in fashion and FRENN manages to contribute to all these ideas. (Continues…)
Is sound at times too ephemeral to be taken as an art form? Our modern recordings of pop songs and performances have led us to take sound for granted – rhythms and melodies that never change. We forget that sound, including music, can also be art. Sound and composition can be representational, and it can contain the same abstractions that you expect in representational art. (Continues…)
Inka Bell (b. 1981) was selected as Grafia’s Graphic Designer of the Year 2018. Bell works open-mindedly in-between design and art, concentrating specially on serigraphy. In her current prize exhibition Zanni at ARTEK textures, structures and the sense of different materials have an apparent role. Her approach to the relationship between two-dimensional and three-dimensional forms is intriguing. “I mostly work with paper, and I try to find new ways to utilize this mundane material. Quite often we see and use paper as a two-dimensional surface, and I am interested in studying how we can use it in a new way.” (Continues…)
Contained and eruptive, the galvanic impressions that contemporary artist Elina Merenmies meticulously paints and draws seize the viewer with their sense of truth. “I was probably six years old when I fantasized about the profession of an artist, and by the age of eight I painted with oil colors for the first time. When I was young, drawing and painting were somehow ways of staying sane; nowadays they are an inseparable part of normal, happy everyday life as well as what feels like good physical work.” (Continues…)
A selection of photographs and videos from Elina Brotherus’ series Règle du jeu (Rules of the game) is currently being exhibited at Galleria Heino in Helsinki. The series based on event scores, short scripts that set out the actions of the performance, was first exhibited at the photography gallery of the Pompidou Centre in Paris after Brotherus won the French Carte Blanche PMU prize in 2017. The competition brief was to analyze the world of games and to give it expression through the medium of images. The result is a collection of images that need to be read. (Continues…)
