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The Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki, better known as Kiasma, will display a large collection of work by Swedish photographer Denise Grünstein entitled “Figures Out” Here we can enjoy four photographic series by the artist, best known for her compositions that seem like representations of strange dreams.
Women, hidden by their own hair in landscapes full of sand, sea and sky which seem to have no end, make “Figures Out,” the series that gives name to the exhibition, a disturbing picture in which the female figures submerge themselves in passive suffocation. Whether in an urban or wild, in a gray room or on a pier, the women Grünstein depicts are lost or misplaced.
Rounding out the exhibition are three other equally interesting photographic series: “Figures in Landscapes” (Figures in Landscape), which tells stories without a beginning or end in different scenarios, “Malplacé” (2005), in which the artist, born in 1950, visit places near her childhood home in Hanko, “Zone V”, which features black and white images that reflect her travels through Eastern Europe and her Jewish heritage.
In addition to the photographs, a video installation called “All Flesh is Grass” with music by American composer Morton Feldman accompanies the show. In it, the artist expresses the ephemeral, disposable and degraded nature of modern life.
Known worldwide for her work as a fashion and advertising photographer, Grünstein shares with us a unique aesthetic that creates different feelings about space and the feminine realm.
The exhibition ends on August 15, 2010. Kiasma is open on Tuesdays from 10 to 17 hours, Wednesday through Friday from 10 am to 20:30 pm and Saturday from 10 to 18 hours. Admission is free for children under eighteen years of age and older the cost is 8 euros. The first Wednesday of each month, between five and eight in the evening, admission is free. Rent apartments in Helsinki to rest well and visit this dream show in Kiasma, and check out what else this great museum has on offer.
