Studio Mustanapa, from January 13 through February 6
This project started from a shared experience: loss. In 2020 the three of us lost our fathers. We live in three different countries that could be thought of as different cultures, but this emptiness surpasses our own stories to become the stories of many. In fact, the stories of others become ours too.
There is a shared human capacity to use stories and rituals to integrate experiences that surpass our immediate knowledge of life-marking events. We have taken some of these narratives, the records from others and our own accounts to try and listen to those absent.
The reflection has flowed beyond personal, moving past those first overwhelming moments, to merge with a broader stream. Often these tales, now shared, the narrative elements we’ve gathered from our collective journey, were once carried and nested in everyday objects, or simple gestures. These suddenly void complicities, these modest objects left behind, yearn to be acknowledged, to serve as signs, as references. We have played a game of broken telephone, which casts the missing part into a limelight. This exchange allowed us to turn everything that was with us only as fragments of meaning into something tangible.
Broken Telephone(s) exhibition is a space-related installation displaying new audiovisual pieces and works. The project starts at Studio Mustanapa in Rovaniemi. It will develop and grow, resulting in a series of evolving and experimental installations to be shown in their osmotic relationship in upcoming exhibition locations including Helsinki, Barcelona and Buenos Aires.
Opening of the exhibition at Gallery Napa on Friday the 12th of January, from 6 to 8 p.m.
Welcome!
Artists’ contact info:
- Gemma Draper:
https://www.gemmadraper.com/ - Francisca Kweitel:
https://franciscakweitel.wixsite.com/sitio
@francisca_kweitel - Nelli Tanner:
https://www.nellitanner.com/
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