Keywords: Leena Kangaskoski, veistos, julkinen taide, HAM, Kuparikumpujen kätkö, keramiikka, installaatio, tilateos, public work, ceramic, installation
The installation comprising three pieces by Leena Kangaskoski (born 1982) is located in the recently completed Daycare Centre Hopealaakso in Kruunuvuorenranta.
The work Kuparikumpujenkätkö (‘Copper Mound Stash’) is located in the shaft of light between the building’s two floors. The work is made with glazed ceramics and built of shapes opening downwards, like boulders that seem ancient and peaceful when viewed from above. Inside, these boulders reveal the slow process of mineralisation and change that has lasted several million years.
Kangaskoski based her art pieces on the history of Hopealaakso: The area – named ‘Silver Valley’ in Finnish – was home to a silver mine in late 18th century, and many minerals have been discovered in the area aside from silver, such as chalcopyrite, zinc pyrite, calcite, galena and sphalerite.
Kangaskoski’s pieces bring a throw-back to the last centuries’ local history into the daycare centre, but also parallel our day-to-day conception of time with geological time.
The daycare centre was designed by architect agency AFKS. Images Hannu Rytky 1-3, Sonja Hyytiäinen 4-6.