KAREITA – Elisa Pirinen

Something drops.

The ripples of the effect spread over time. Time swirls as possibilities, potentials, before crystallising and giving birth to itself in the world as forms. Forms of event and presence, sound, colour, taste, smell, sensation, emotion, bridge, barrier, impulse, intention, residue and constant change. Forms that appear one and imitate the other, falsely deceiving, or with wondrous abundance. A stream of these wave-ends flows wonderfully by, with our river, and the water no longer burns with its coldness, but I dare to swim. In the stream I come across a driftwood, which I pick up.

I trace the shape of the tree with my fingers, and find in it the reasons for life. Following the causes, an exhibition is carved out.

Elisa Pirinen is a visual artist who graduated from Kankaanpää School of Fine Arts in 2021 and lives and works in the rural village of Korkeaoja in Kokemäki. In art, the most essential angle of entry for her is a symbolist-analytical way of perceiving, where the world speaks and nothing represents only itself. Stylistically, he dances between representational and abstract expression, and values beauty over meaning. The media and materials he uses vary according to the subject matter, from sculpture to painting and performance, so that the vision that guides his choices is the pursuit of a kind of universal compassion and sympathy, which for him means following the Tao, which in his art means incorporating the fateful coincidences of the social world into the processes of the work and into the creation of layers of meaning, which in practice is reflected in the use of various narrative recycled materials. The cries and struggles over the cyrene of the Kareita exhibition are essential.

Kareita is Elisa’s second gallery solo show, and explores the themes present in the artist’s life over the last few years, seeking to find a red thread that goes deeper. The exhibition is an organism with wood and clay as its bony skeleton. In some elusive way, in his mind, it is also about the forest – human or tree.

Trying out a new tradition from the idea of the previous exhibition: visitors are warmly invited to leave a wooden mark on a canvas that serves as a guest book and community artwork. Together, our trees become a forest, an image of our connections.

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Translated with DeepL.com