Mindset
Galleria Forum Box, Helsinki, Finland, 2016
The exhibition at Forum Box Gallery includes a two-part painting installation, Picture of the times, and an installation imitating a small room, Silence casts long shadows. Picture of the times consists of two paintings that stand facing each other. They express something of the interaction between an experience and a depiction of an experience. This depiction of a depiction gets broken with a reflection of a viewer. Black paint turns to a lighter and purple to a multi-coloured surface when the paintings copy the colours of the exhibition space.Silence casts longs shadows resembles an overexposed photograph in a three-dimensional form. It is an all-white room with a lighted ceiling. The room is furnished with glossy black furniture. Their reflections sink into each other because of the strong lighting and glossy paint. When the viewer leaves the room, the rest of the gallery space seems darkened until the sight adjusts to the new lighting conditions.
