EFFICIENT
ESTHETICS
Sari Palosaari
6.-22.10.2006
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The
installation by Palosaaren sketch our global environment from the point
of view of the individual's everyday life. She explores our experience
of different architectonic spaces, with a special focus on how the cinema
and television have changed our perception of urban space. Virtual and
physical spaces, fantasy and reality interface and projection on our perceptions,
they all change our experience of space and affect the reconstruction
of our environment.
Palosaari's compilations of knick-knacks become cities the viewer can
visit by viewing the video. The video projections are in parallel with
the installations that are in scale with reality, in a continuum with
the objects and the urban world on the video; The constructions and the
video projections reflect space on several levels and varying scales -
from children's play through the office on to urban environments of films.
The Installation Efficient Esthetics is an office point compiled of shelf
modules; storage and filing equipment, with two video projections. The
city space is created of the knick-knacks of the office desk, penholders
and CD towers, the projection panels are placed on the sides of the shelves
like billboards on tower blocks. The functional theme of the work is underlined
by the fact that both assembling and dismantling of the construction is
easy. It is reminiscent of children's building block games, using contemporary
design and futuristic visions of contemporary architecture.
In
addition to the installation the exhibition includes a series of drawings,
Taped Windows, using a technique familiar boards from building sites:
contact film on painted plywood. The starting point is photographs of
blocks of flats, with everything but the windows extracted. The white
surface of the pictures is taped over, creating a composition of colourful
patches of plastic film. Some street signs have been left to accompony
the windows - taped tapings.
Exhibition supported by:
Alfred Kordelin Foundation
AVEK The Promotion Centre for Audio-visual Culture / Milla Moilanen
City of Helsinki Cultural Office
Kemin Rakennustasoite Oy
the Arts Council of Finland
the Finnish Cultural Foundation Uusimaa regional fund
Visek
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