Possible paradises – Aino Jääskeläinen and Anna Seppälä

Possible paradises is Aino’s and Anna's first exhibition together. They have been working in the same studio for years, and the idea of exhibiting together has been in their minds for a long time.

They exhibit coloristic mixed media and monotype works from 2023-2024.

Both artists take their inspiration from daily life, relationships and being a human in this world. There is a certain similar splattered randomness and gentle roughness that connects their working process. Neither life nor art happens in a clean laboratorium, but rather in the middle of life’s unexpected turns and twists. Their works can be sen as flashes from same world; they are related in an undefined way.

Aino: “When I work, it’s like telling myself an indeterminate, plotless story, which I almost comprehend, and I am having conversations with the works. I mostly work with monotype, which is a print making technique, where each picture is unique. I like to call it a love child of painting and print making. Miracles appear out of press, and nothing is like intended. The work tells me what it needs, and I answer.”

Anna: ”I am interested in universal likeness between human and plants, symbiosis and symmetry between cellular respiration and photosyntesis. Our blood circulation system reminds us of the branches of a tree. We are physically part of the biosphere, and thus connected to every living thing on this planet. In my paintings there is often a figure that is not completely human, but party belongs to plants or insect world. How are we part of this world? How could we turn the endless human inventiveness to protect all the life we are now destroying? Could our empathy cover also the forms of life that are not like ours?”

Opening of the exhibition on Wednesday, April 17th, from 5 PM to 7 PM. Free entry.