That Being Said,

That Being Said, an exhibition featuring four international artists: Alina Rentsch, Anna-Maria Saar, Sten Saarits and talking through our bodies (Kasia Zofia Gorniak).

The exhibition and accompanying programme hosts an interplay of four artists' works dealing with multifaceted perspectives, everyday acts, performativity and interpersonal interaction.

The exhibition picks up with a series of conversations between artist-curator Noora Lehtovuori and artists Alina Rentsch, Anna-Maria Saar, Sten Saarits and talking through our bodies (Kasia Zofia Gorniak). The four were originally brought together by Lehtovuori to take part in the group exhibition In Continuous Dialogue II, which was unfortunately cancelled, and so followed the conception of this new, collectively organized exhibition. 

In That Being Said, the artists find the up-sides of down-scaling, shaping their works around regular conversations with each other. Spoken, printed and knitted words converge in the mediums of textile, soundscape, sculpture and moving image. Not unlike the emergence and exchange of ideas that led to the exhibition concept, elements such as sound and live bodies bounce from one end of the space to the other, invoking an environment which fluctuates between envelopment and release. A listening experience is choreographed, an act of repair is performed. A tablecloth overflowing with centrepieces speaks, a garment is decorated with semi-obscured meanings.

Artists:

Alina Rentsch
Anna-Maria Saar
Sten Saarits
talking through our bodies

in conversation with Noora Lehtovuori

Vapaan taiteen tila

17.-19.11.2023

Events:

17.11.  17.00–20.00
The exhibition opening

18.11. at 19.00
Performance by talking through our bodies with Laura Jantunen, Parsa Kamehkhosh, Milka Luhtaniemi, Vilma Mankonen and Hanten Bureau

19.11. at 13.00-14.30
Artist Talk moderated by Noora Lehtovuori

Free entry