Galerie Anhava is delighted to begin 2024 with Vesa-Pekka Rannikko’s exhibition Plenty. The gallery has been populated by exhilaratingly generous sculptural hybrids and animations that merge drawing, painting and text. Sumptuously colourful and sensorily stimulating, the exhibition seeks to dissolve boundaries between nature and the human experience to create a more holistic, multi-sensory and integrative experience. In many ways, the works dwell in borderline zones, in liminal spaces where different artforms entwine with narrative fragments and creatures drawing on both taxonomy and imagination.

In the illuminated space, a series of expressive sculptures stand on pillar-like pedestals as if scientific specimens of newly discovered organisms. With their organic and decorative forms, colourful spots, stringy feelers or tentacles, the pieces play with the limits of identification. From a distance, Rannikko’s unique sculptures seem deceptively like paintings, their rough patches of colour like brushstrokes. The new works are hybrids in other ways as well: the imaginative sculptures are playful amalgamations of elements derived from the realms of insects and plants, the representational and the abstract, the familiar and the unknown.