Eero Yrjölä & Aleksi Kolmonen: When Our Sinful Souls Find an Angel in One Another

Eero Yrjölä & Aleksi Kolmonen: When Our Sinful Souls Find an Angel in One Another

“You tell me you dreamed of me and clouds. There was only me, smiling, and the clouds.
I gently sink into the image you have painted of me as an angelic figure who looks upon the world with tenderness.”

The joint exhibition by Eero Yrjölä and Aleksi Kolmonen at Hippolyte Studio brings together photography, ceramics, and sound. The installation explores the essence of the angel through self-portraiture, playing with the abundance and emptiness of a nostalgic world of glossy picture cards.

The angel in the exhibition is norm-defying, radical, and queer. Yrjölä and Kolmonen draw on traditional angel aesthetics while simultaneously challenging the worldviews and ideologies associated with them. Although the angel is a culturally recognisable figure, it seems to elude more precise definitions of time and place. The angel is fluid: shifting from one state of being to another and flying between alternative realities.

For the artists, inner angelhood is a way of being – a conscious choice to experience the world through innocence and without shame. In artists’ collaborative practice, authorship and different methods become intertwined. In the exhibition, a porcelain angel figure is given a fleshy  counterpart.
 

Photographic Gallery Hippolyte, Studio

11.9.-11.10.2026

Tue-Fri 12.00-17.00

Sat-Sun 12.00-16.00

Free entry