Transformations

Arca & Jesse Kanda

The creative collaboration between Arca (b.1989 Venezuela) and Jesse Kanda (b.1987, Japan) has continued now for nearly two decades. Arca’s artistic vision breaks boundaries in music, gender and self-expression. The mutated figures of Kanda’s digital sculptures challenge notions of pure and untouched nature.

Kinga Bartis

Kinga Bartis’ (b.1984, Romania) sensitive art works depict human figures wrapped in emotional states and in the embrace of nature. In them, lines between the body and environment are fluid, and this accentuates nature’s power to enchant. Human and nature breathe and change shape simultaneously, intimately related to each other.

melanie bonajo

When the body says Yes is part of melanie bonajo’s (b.1978, Netherlands) ongoing research into the current status of intimacy in our increasingly alienating, commodity-driven world. For bonajo, touch can be a powerful remedy for the modern epidemic of loneliness.

Elo-Reet Järv

The sculptures of Elo-Reet Järv (b. 1939, d. 2018, Estonia) interface with folk mythologies, fantasy literature and wild dreams. The works are situated on the boundary of reality and imagination. She was exceptionally skilled in working the leather, and through this material she succeeded in expressing wholly individual visions.

Ana Mendieta

Ana Mendieta (b. 1948, Cuba, d. 1985, United States) was exiled to the United States from her home country of Cuba at age twelve. This early traumatic experience directed her artistic work, in which themes of race, gender and class are repeated.

Luis Alberto Rodriguez

Luis Alberto Rodriguez’s (b. 1981, United States) background as a dancer and choreographer is evident in his understanding and depiction of the human body. For the People of the Mud –series he directed Irish hurling players into spontaneous formations. The end result is a series of group portraits that show soft sides of masculinity.

Jani Ruscica

Questioning intact wholes is at the core of the art of Jani Ruscica (b.1978, Finland). Through the use of various media Ruscica shapes, stretches and clashes linguistic categories that entail normative notions of the body and of communication.

Mari Sunna

The paintings and drawings by Mari Sunna (b.1972, Finland) are like portals into alternative realities. They remind us of biological processes, renewal and of the continuous movement of energy. Physicality and spirituality are not opposites, but rather they complete each other in a shared dance.

Taneli Rautiainen

The site specific works of Taneli Rautiainen (b.1983, Finland) deal with the interaction between humans and the environment. The pieces conduct a dialogue between contractual systems and surprises. They tempt us to consider the dynamics between coincidence and preordination, between chaos and order.

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Apichatpong Weerasethakul (b.1970, Thailand) is a master of meditative and mysterious atmospheres. Inner and outer worlds as well as the seen and the hidden create tensions in this audiovisual piece. Its intensive soundscape accentuates the multiple meanings of the scene created in the middle of a rain forest.