Installation: Lobby
11.-17.12.2023
Aala Nyman and Tuomas Lehtomaa
Aala Nyman and Tuomas Lehtomaa (Sculpture studies, Academy of Fine Arts, Uniarts Helsinki) have been working together for the last few years on a shared practice based on sculptural explorations on material processes of the everyday. Through their interest in mundane moments, slowness and boredom, the artists attempt at drawing closer on a sense of presence in very concrete terms. A shared process-based practise oriented on the potential of material changes and reactions takes place, the only promise here being a passing of time.
For the KuvA Research Days 2023 Aala and Tuomas are working on an active installation that takes as its starting point the place in which it is situated in, a lobby. The common waiting room, its possible different meanings, and the notion of a lobby as an in-between space for things to possibly take place or formulate functions here as the core for the sculptural, time-sensitive, mind map-like gathering of things.
The installation is interactive in a way, that the viewer is free to touch the objects, boil some water, make a cup of tea, or maybe chew a piece of gum… and leave a small trace.
The installation is in the foyer of the Academy of Fine Arts main building Mylly (Sörnäisten rantatie 19, Helsinki).
Read more about The Academy of Fine Arts at Uniarts Helsinki (KuvA) Research Days 2023 here
11.-17.12.2023
Aala Nyman and Tuomas Lehtomaa
Aala Nyman and Tuomas Lehtomaa (Sculpture studies, Academy of Fine Arts, Uniarts Helsinki) have been working together for the last few years on a shared practice based on sculptural explorations on material processes of the everyday. Through their interest in mundane moments, slowness and boredom, the artists attempt at drawing closer on a sense of presence in very concrete terms. A shared process-based practise oriented on the potential of material changes and reactions takes place, the only promise here being a passing of time.
For the KuvA Research Days 2023 Aala and Tuomas are working on an active installation that takes as its starting point the place in which it is situated in, a lobby. The common waiting room, its possible different meanings, and the notion of a lobby as an in-between space for things to possibly take place or formulate functions here as the core for the sculptural, time-sensitive, mind map-like gathering of things.
The installation is interactive in a way, that the viewer is free to touch the objects, boil some water, make a cup of tea, or maybe chew a piece of gum… and leave a small trace.
The installation is in the foyer of the Academy of Fine Arts main building Mylly (Sörnäisten rantatie 19, Helsinki).
Read more about The Academy of Fine Arts at Uniarts Helsinki (KuvA) Research Days 2023 here