"My favourite things"
31.8.-29.10.2023
Gumbostrand, Sipoo
Paintings of the explosion. When you search, you get something wonderful for yourself, but it's not enough.
Beauty is the ultimate value for me, but it's broken. Lust is built around it, and for a reason you feel a sting in your conscience. Beauty has become an everyday matter whose value is defined in money. Access to the beauty can be purchased. The pursuit of beauty is in danger of turning into a compulsive pursuit of power and turning one's gaze away from difficulties. Aesthetics and the divine values of beauty have been stolen into the wrong hands.
How to learn the sense of beauty again? How to push yourself to find the things that are important to you?
The stage bird decorates its nest to take care of something important. Beauty can create security.
My father was an industrial designer. For him, durability and functionality were beautiful things.
My mother saw beauty in everyday details; in bodies, clothes and plants.
I want to continue nurturing sustainable values with my own work. I want to find my own path to beauty, beyond what is offered on the outside. It is not easy. And it shouldn't be.
Mieleni perukoihin on painunut polttomerkinnän lailla tarkkoja kuvia lapsuudestani asti.
Uskon että ihmiset muistavat asioita eri aistein. Itse muistan tuoksujen lisäksi valokuvan tarkasti visuaalisia yksityiskohtia ja tunnelmia. Tapetin struktuuri, kasvimaan kukan sävy, heijastuksen olemus - niin monta asiaa,
että välillä on puhdistettava muistia. Ehkä siksi minulla on tarve purkaa muistijälkiä kankaalle, pois mielestä.
Syvälle mieleen on jääneet myös lapsena monesti pelatun Original Memory - pelin kuvat.
Näyttelyn teosten muoto on inspiroitunut tästä muistipelistä.
Samalla maalaustyössäni tutkimuksen alla on maalin koostumus ja materian tuntu.
Helsingissä 5.5.2026
Tanja Ahola
