OHIKULKUMATKALLA – KERTOMUKSIA / stories, Reetta Mustajoki and Pinja Mäki

We are constantly on a journey to somewhere. Countless environments and objects pass us by. We cling to some of them, as if trying to hold on to the fleeting. We forget things so that we can remember at least something from our journey.

Reetta Mustajoki (b. 1943) and Pinja Mäki (b. 1984) – a mother and daughter – have brought an installation to Poriginal Gallery, consisting of sounds, photographs, and objects. Mustajoki has, among other things, photographed her hometowns with a small camera and used a sewing machine to combine the images and cropped parts into new compositions. Mäki’s sound works accompany the installation.

Ohikulkumatkalla – Kertomuksia is a collection that explores the space between memory and forgetting. The subjects and materials of the works are personal but do not recount the creators’ own lives per se. The visual environment captured in the photographs and the objects that have followed them in life serve as interpreters of a random truth. The memory and imagination, reinforced by the soundscape in Ohikulkumatkalla, carry the narrative forward.

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