Keskuskartano + 251, Workgroup Niilo Rinne, Harri Laakso, Pia Euro

Keskuskartano + 251 is an exhibition whose works are in some way related to the residential and commercial building complex named Keskuskartano, located on the edge of Pori’s Keskuskaukio square. When completed as a subsidized housing project in 1962, Keskuskartano was one of the largest residential buildings in the Nordic countries, and it still has a significant impact on the cityscape of Pori.

The works in the exhibition:

Pia Euro, Harri Laakso, and Niilo Rinne
Keskuskartano 2014 (2016) is a large-scale and long-duration video projection that depicts the building and the square in front of it throughout the entire year of 2014, accelerated by a factor of 1500.

Pia Euro and Harri Laakso
251 (2016) is an installation consisting of photographs and objects, with materials derived from the sales table number 251 at the Hyllymeri flea market in the basement of Keskuskartano, where items for sale on June 8th, 2016, were displayed. The sales table was randomly chosen, on a whim.

Niilo Rinne
Building #1 (2016) is a multi-channel video installation that approaches the building through the means of subjective documentary filmmaking. The work is the first part of a long-term documentary project following Keskuskartano, examining the building not only as a residence and locally significant structure but also as a form through which many classic questions related to modern architecture and society are reflected.

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