Porin Saskiat ry, Scholarship Exhibition – Henri Ijäs, Mikko Ängeslevä

The Poriginal Gallery will host the Porin Saskiat Association’s scholarship exhibition starting on September 23, 2016. The 2016 exhibition scholarships have been awarded to visual artists Henri Ijäs and Mikko Ängeslevä.

Henri Ijäs (b. 1983) is a visual artist who graduated from Kankaanpää School of Fine Arts in the spring of 2016. In his exhibition in the lower level of the Poriginal Gallery, the familiar and the strange meet. The body of work is made up of installations and hybrid forms of traditional sculptural objects, where societal and psychological themes are combined. The themes include mental and physical boundaries, presence, and absence. Ijäs has focused particularly on sculptural expression, using everyday objects as his materials. The Porin Saskiat Association’s scholarship exhibition is his second solo exhibition in Pori.

Mikko Ängeslevä (b. 1982) is also a graduate of Kankaanpää School of Fine Arts, having completed his studies in the spring of 2016, with a focus on sculpture and painting. The exhibition in the upper floor of Poriginal Gallery is based more on materials than concepts. The works, partly made from recycled materials, give new life to waste and abandoned objects. The works have been melted, burned, crumpled, and cut. Controlled and uncontrolled merge, with playfulness and seriousness meeting in the themes of the works. This exhibition, which consists of paintings, reliefs, and sculptures, is Ängeslevä’s first solo exhibition in Pori.

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