31 Oct – 24 Nov 2024

The new works in the exhibition by Jaana Kokko and Salla Tykkä were produced between 2017 and 2024. Works of moving image and photographs stem from existing geographical locations, where the events of our time intensify and expand. The shared foundation in both artists’ practices is a strong personal perspective. The artists explore place and transgenerational heritage through a documentary approach. The works feature durational filming processes, archival sources, interviews, and the presence of the artists themselves, all of which can be seen and heard.

Since 2000, Salla Tykkä has been documenting in images and sounds the surroundings of her studio located in an industrial area in eastern Helsinki: industrial yards, patches of forest, roads, and roadsides. Based on these notes and observations she has created the moving image piece entitled The Will (30 min, 2024) and the photographic works Contact 1–3 (2024) and Sheet 1–3 (2024). In her works, Tykkä explores both places and the technologies of recording and image production. Neither the human gaze nor the image can ever be neutral. The multiple exposed frames of film in deconstruct the notion of random observation by highlighting the subjective and ideological nature of the gaze. The large contact prints reveal the artist’s choices and decisions embodied in the moment of taking the photograph, in repetition and return.