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Anna-Leena Vilhunen: Valkoinen asfalttijyrsin / The White Asphalt Milling Machine
Koneita ja ihmisiä / Machines and People, Solo exhibition 1st - 26th September 2021 Gallery Aarni, Shopping Centre Sello, Leppävaara, Espoo. Photo Noomi Ljungdell.
Machines and People
Like the excavators in her paintings, Anna-Leena Vilhunen digs deep into her memories and perceptions to create her art. Her expressive and vibrant works combine themes of parenthood, play and danger with various machines – such as asphalt milling machines, snow ploughs, lorries and baby prams – in a highly enigmatic way. By painting the unearthed material, Vilhunen not only modifies her surroundings but also surrenders to an unpredictable interaction with her audience. Layer by layer, she seeks to make room for the less obvious and, in doing so, to reach deeper into “an incandescent reality”.
Jussi A. Saarinen, a philosopher interested in artistic creativity and painters’ experiences of painting
