FLOW / STRÖMNINGAR
April 15 - May 8
open Wed-Sun 12-16

Milla Hannula, Riitta Lied, Tonja Goldblatt, Timo O. Nenonen and Markku Haanpää from Turku Artists' Association

The exhibition FLOW is about flowing in several ways.
In Turku a large nature art project along the river Aura soon will open, organized by the Turku Artists' Association. The project is part of the Turku European Capital of Culture 2011, and the exhibition FLOW in Eskilstuna is a starter for the event in Turku.
The idea is that Eskilstuna and Turku have parables, with the rivers flowing through both cities.
In the summer of 2010 Stina Pehrsdotter and Niclas Hallberg from Formverk (art zone) were invited to have an exhibition in Galleria Å in Turku. From that meeting a flow of thoughts was born about having an exhibition exchange, and now these ideas are realized in the exhibition FLOW with the four Finnish artists Milla Hannula, Riitta Lied, Tonja Goldblatt and Markku Haanpää.

The four artists will present their own works; installations, paintings and glass engravings. One part of the exhibition is produced on site in Eskilstuna, using local inhabitants - especially those of Finnish descent, who came to town with migratory movements over the years. The site-specific installation consists of photographs of these people's hands, to be assembled to form one large map. In the map it is formed a long river-like image from the lines of the hands. These river-lines give the installation a flow which may open new river-grooves whose direction or content we do not know in advance.

The artists' own works deals with flows of time and mind. Markku Haanpääs installation consists of a village, a group of small houses, detached from its origin, but with solid roots still in the houses. Riitta Liedes installation consists of a group of mongoose-like animals who have decided to move to other provinces, and therefore bring tools and implements. Milla Hannulas abstract paintings create sensory images of landscapes, where the image of memory will change over time. The transparent glass engravings by Tonja Goldblatt seems to ask questions if these images ever existed in reality.

Turku Artists' Association was founded in 1924, and has since worked as an organization of professional artists. The association gathers around 170 members and runs Galleria Å in central Turku.