The opening of the exhibitions by Silja Selonen and Nora Sederlöf takes place at HAA Gallery on Thursday, January 2, at 5 pm! The exhibitions run from 3 January until 25 January 2025. You are warmly welcome!
Image: Silja Selonen (left) and Nora Sederlöf (right)
Silja Selonen: Polgu (Hall 1)
Sorkkaisen sinivarjot
ja marjain mustat valot.
Sysisilmän matala maailma
ja tähdetön tosi.
As part of her artistic research, Selonen installed an art exhibition in forest last spring. The works were addressed to animals and their senses and process stripped art of its cultural meanings into a pure sensory message. During the year, lynx, squirrel, marten, fox, raccoon, hare, several deer’s and moose’s and one black-winged visited the forest exhibition. To HAA Gallery Silja brings game camera photos of these visitors, as well as poems and portraits created from photographs.
Silja Selonen is a hunter-gatherer and multi-artist from Lieto born in 1965 who graduated from Turku Art Academy in 2009 with major in sculpture. She is currently finishing her master`s studies in the multidisciplinary world of Aalto University. Selonen has studied and made bio, light and sound art, but painting is the most natural expression for her. In her art, she currently deals with themes related to perception and consciousness. Salonen’s work is characterized by posthumanism and no anthropocentric thinking, which looks at living being in time and space from the perspective of science. She is interested in the Finno-Ugric philosophy of parallel thinking, which links existence to another being and nature.
Silja Selonen strives for naturalness in her life and work, using clay and tempera in her paintings and natural material in her installations.
Nora Sederlöf: Powder Compact and White Lies (Hall 2)
Sederlöf’s exhibition at HAA Gallery is a sculpture installation featuring works that combine textiles with metal framework structures. While the overall composition is abstract, details introduce storytelling and layering into the pieces. There are recognizable elements that Sederlöf reworks, manipulates, and combines.
The works are made of lightweight fabrics, tights, elastics, cords, fabric-covered metal frames, and various laces, curtains, and upholstery trims. Sederlöf hopes that viewers will recognize familiar elements in the sculptures, arranged in a new, unconventional way. The laces and elastics reference textiles that require maintenance, but the materials also hint at elements of home decor.
Nora Sederlöf (b. 1983) is a visual artist from Helsinki. She graduated with a Master of Fine Arts in sculpture from the Academy of Fine Arts in 2023 and earned a Master of Arts in fashion and costume design from Aalto University in 2013. Sederlöf has worked with textiles throughout her adult life, whether in clothing or in sculpture.
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