VARIABLES – Maria Pääkkönen & Sanna Horvath

Sanna Horvath & Maria Pääkkönen: Variables

Poriginal Gallery, October 15 – 30, 2022

In the joint exhibition Variables, Sanna Horvath and Maria Pääkkönen explore themes of change and transience through their distinct artistic methods. Maria Pääkkönen’s pencil-based works center around the temporal process of drawing and the resulting trace of the medium. In contrast, Sanna Horvath’s works stem from the aesthetic qualities emerging from the materiality of handmade paper. Despite their differences, the artists’ subtle works share a sense of hapticity, a time-intensive creative process, and detailed drawing and engraving marks. The themes, drawn from an organic world, grow into abstract surfaces and fictional organisms.

The artists’ work has been supported by the Arts Promotion Centre Finland and the Turku Art Society.

Artists

Sanna Horvath (b. 1986) is a visual artist based in Turku. She primarily works within the field of printmaking, with a particular focus on woodcut printing. Horvath’s works highlight the human relationship with the surrounding reality. She produces most of her materials herself, from paper to printing inks, utilizing circular economy principles and natural materials.
Horvath holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts Helsinki, where she specialized in printmaking in 2016.

Maria Pääkkönen (b. 1988) is a visual artist based in Espoo. Her drawing-centered practice incorporates performative and spatial elements. She earned her Master of Fine Arts degree from the Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts Helsinki, in 2016 and subsequently participated in the Jan van Eyck Academie residency in Maastricht. Her works have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in Finland, Norway, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, and Japan.

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