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Saara Ekström is a multi-faceted Finnish artist who works with different media and techniques, such as video, photography and installations. Attracted to classical compositions, Ekstrom manages to reinterpret the still life with an innovative force and insightful gaze that will have you looking twice.
She draws inspiration from the painting of northern Europe, melding this visual aesthetic with XXI century products such as televisions, lamps and other artifacts of post-modernity, creating a strange but evocative tension between past and present. Thus, her work exudes a certain timeless classicism, which is, however, firmly anchored in our contemporary visual culture.
However, this gesture is only a technique, which serves as a basis to investigate and reflect on humanistic issues and in particular feminism. As the artist points out, the material itself, in fact, is not the message of her creative experiments, simply a means of communication, a metaphor that points to the concern she wants to express through her art.
Now the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma in Helsinki has organized its first major retrospective of her work of Ekstrom, collecting pieces from the last ten years of her artistic career. It opens on January 14th 2011 under the title “Limbus” This exhibition gives us the opportunity to enter into the imagination of the Finnish artist, which runs from the poetic to the most bizarre, from the most current to the most anachronistic.
For those with artistic leanings, this exhibition at the Kiasma exhibition promises to start the year strongly, as well as introduce us to one of the most interesting artists from Finland, whose interesting proposals are often given short shrift on the international contemporary art scene.
Heloise Battista
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Translated by: salome antigone
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