Océane Bruel, dylan ray arnold
15.3. – 27.4.2025

Warmly welcome to the opening on Friday, 14th of March, 2025 from 6 to 9 PM

“To live is to pass from one space to another while doing your very best not to bum yourself against the walls.” — Georges Perec

“There is something inside the body that wants to get out. You feel it when you stan between two mirrors.”— Anne Carson

Somewhere between these two quotes, their banality and necessity, lies a plane where the work of both Oce?ane and dylan dwell. For Swallowed Rooms they present sculptural and spatial works that combine lived environments with corporeal and mental spaces. The artists invent love and loss of personal and domestic attachments. A sort of psychic infrastructure of heat, liquid and gas. The constellation of their work could be the organization of life on a fridge door: magnets, notes, images, souvenirs and dreams. There are looping scenes of quotidian drama, shapes losing their form, as well as works that coil in themselves.

The title of the show suggests the metabolic nature of the artist’s practices – chewing, transforming and articulating materials, spaces and experiences. dylan and Oce?ane are interested in various everyday loops, systems, habits and addictions.

The show is a sequel of Water under the fridge – a duo show they did in 2024 at In extenso in Clermont-Ferrand, France with the writer and curator Katia Porro. Swallowed Rooms is the first time the artists present their individual practices alongside each other in Finland, having collaborated as Touristes Tristes -duo since 2016. The show will be accompanied by a text by Katia Porro.

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The exhibition is made in collaboration with In extenso, with the support of Frame Finland, and TAIKE. dylan ray arnold’s work is supported by KONE Foundation and Oce?ane Bruel’s work by SKR Uusimaa.

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dylan ray arnold is a pihlajama?ki-based visual artist who works with sculpture, drawing, assemblage and printed matter. Their works have been exhibited in solo shows in Finland at Forum Box (2023), P7T art space (2022), Turku Art Hall (2020) and duo shows at Titanik gallery (2022), Alkovi (2019). Their work has been presented in group exhibitions in Finland and abroad e.g. Galleri CC, Malmo? (2024), K17, Sipoo, (2023), Kosminen, Helsinki (2021), Tallinn Art Hall (2019). dylan holds a MFA from the Fine Arts Academy of Helsinki (2019).

Oce?ane Bruel is a visual artist based in Helsinki. She works with sculpture and installation. In recent years, she has presented her work in solo exhibitions in Finland and internationally e.g Pengerkatu 7 Tyo?huone, Helsinki (2022), La BF15, FR (2020), Muu Kaapeli, Helsinki (2019) AIR Sandnes, NO (2018) and in duo at Gether Contemporary, DK (2020). Her work has also been presented in group exhibitions in Finland, Estonia, Denmark, Germany, France and Australia.

They have presented their collaborative duo work in solo shows in Finland at HAM gallery (2020) and Titanik gallery (2017) and in Paris at Glassbox in 2019. Their work has also been presented in group shows in Finland and abroad, e.g. in Kiasma (2025), Hobuse Pea, Tallinn (2023) and Pauline Perplexe, Paris (2022). In 2021 they received the Raimo Utriainen Foundation Stipendium. Their works are in the collections of The Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki Art Museum and private collections.

Katia Porro is a curator, writer and translator based in France. She is currently the director of In extenso (Clermont-Ferrand, France) and the magazine La Belle Revue. In 2020-21, she was Associate Director of the Amant Siena residency. She has held various positions in various art institutions and galleries (Galerie Allen, KADIST Paris, Palais de Tokyo) and has curated exhibitions in France and abroad (Fondation d’entreprise Ricard, Paris; Gether Contemporary Copenhagen; Doc !, Paris; Treize, Paris; monopo?le, Lyon) and off-site projects. Katia Porro has published texts in various publications and works as a translator for various magazines, institutions and galleries.

dylanrayarnold.com
oceanebruel.com
katiaporro.com