PORI SASKIOIDEN SCHOLARSHIP EXHIBITION: RATIONAL NONSENSE OWNERS – Heikki Korkala, Miiro Valle

The title of the exhibition is a random generation from the spring of 2019. It simultaneously refers to both reason and nonsense. The ability to control these two on a meticulous and subtle level is the key to subconscious and expressive work.
The exhibition consists mainly of paintings, with video works and documentation of performative work also on display.

Heikki Korkala (1995)
I paint possibilities or impossibilities. A landscape emerges from the canvas; it speaks to me, but there is no need to converse with it, the experience is enough.
The works, which exist between abstract and representational, combine colors, dynamics, and saturation. Feelings, moods, and impressions that are difficult to interpret with words are captured on the canvas. While painting, I work with essence, striving for a balance point between myself and the material. This relationship between humans and their nature is one of my recurring themes.

In my latest works, I have journeyed between layers, exploring fleeting boundaries and moods where several different spaces intersect. Expressive gestures create points of fracture and intersection where different textures, colors, and styles meet in harmony. I want to give the viewer a broad point of entry when observing the work.

I am an interdisciplinary artist from Northern Ostrobothnia. I am currently in my final year at Kankaanpää School of Fine Arts.

Miiro Valle (1990)
When working, I rely strongly on subconscious creativity and intuition. I aim to mirror the human subjective inner space, dreams, and imagination. The mind’s ability to create worlds within worlds. I imagine my artistic production as a kind of non-linear image novella with no beginning or end. Each work is like a scene from a fictional dream. I find it important that art seemingly creates itself and tells me a story, rather than the other way around. The final interpretation always arises from the viewer’s own associations.

I use collage techniques, combining painting, drawing, printmaking, prints, and image manipulation. I see collage as a metaphor for a fragmented dream. If the work is a dream, an individual part of the collage is like a shattered memory trace of the experience, which in the dream appears as part of a completely different whole.

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