A spider is using her net as an extension of her consciousness, as well as human being exploits handicrafts as meditation and as a pinhole to unconscious knowledge.
My studio is situated in an concrete cellar where my colleagues are mainly spiders. They are trying try to hang on to the world by knitting theis nets in some might say pretty hostile environment. In this way they are adapting to the situation and perceive their reality and hopefully sometimes manage to catch a fruitfly got lost in the basement. As a comparison, an artist is using her hands, knowledge and expertise, when commencing glueing, welding and sewing together seemingly incompactible elements of the piece of art. In this way, with any luck, the net of new consciousness might catch perhaps suprising intepretations of surrounding reality.
I hereby claim: creating art manually is expanding the consciousness.
In this solo exhibition, I use a spider and it’s knitting labour as a metaphor for my artistic creative process. I have a strong sensation that using hands creatively expands greatly the probability of inventing a out of the box, surprising solution for respective dilemma.
As basic material for my Mixed Waste Method, I exploit reclaimed junk. In this particular exhibition, the nuclear parts are three sets of dining chairs. These sets I have already used for installations and also as funtional construction in my garden. The process got started immediately as I saw the furniture thrown away, I was inspired in a way of building own hut as a little boy. Apparently the repeating forms and architectural mood were tickling my aesthetic instinct, and the temporary finishing line for this process is accomplished in this exhibition: Ragnile.
Ragnile universe is an ongoing process and it finds different forms of exhibitions with no hurry. The entity consists of different categories. For example Bisnonna is a kinetic sculpture – the ancient origin of all weaving. Whilst constructing it, I have caught the forms and the abstract ideas for the actual Ragnile -sculptures. The third part is a infomercial video, which scrutinises sculpture as an form of art, merchandise and an object in our environment. At the end, every aspect of the Ragnile world interconnect with the sci-fi story flowing underneath all objects and matters. I hope I some day manage to finish and publish the radio theatre I’ve written.
Ragnile has been on display on many different occasions. Parts of this scifi-fantasy exhibition have been present in following shows:
- Studio Ragnile -exhibition was live streamed from 21th of April until 3rd of May of 2020 @ Facebook.
- Bisnonna, Ragnile -sculptures and Ragnile -infomecial video were on Avantgardevekkula #4 @haihatus 2020 summer exhibition.
- Drusba II – analog drum machine was in Avantgardevekkula #6 @haihatus 2021 and in KITA 2023 summer exhibitions.
- A Touch of Haihatus. Bisnonna and Ragnile -sculptures on group show in OK11 in Helsinki.
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