Keywords: Jaakko Autio, Riikka Keränen, Identiteetti, havainto, immersio, maa-taide, toisin näkemien yli-ajallinen empatia, Kehomieli yhteys
Artists: Jaakko Autio, Riikka Keränen / Curator: Mirjami Schuppert (Titanik) – Kogo Gallery in collaboration with Titanik gallery / Kogo Founder & Director: Liina Raus / Art technician (Kogo): Urmo Teekivi / Thank you: Lotta Anttila, Ingred Grigor, Tanel Asmer & Eimar Prommik / The installation is made as collaboration with four choirs: Nomad Vocals Choir (FI), Narva Estonian language house Tandem choir (EE), Narva museum folk ensemble “Suprjadki” (EE) and Narva music school girls choir (EE) / Music composer: Jussi Mattila (Original “Maamme laulu/Mu Isamaa by Fredrik Pacius 1847) / The work is a comission from Titanik gallery / The exhibition was supported by the Estonian Cultural endowment, the city of Tartu, The Finnish institute and Frame contemporary Art Finland.
The exhibition Unfolding and Refolding, features new commissions by two Finnish artists, Jaakko Autio and Riikka Keränen. It examines how the past lingers on in the present, how the presence we experience is impacted by our past experiences. We, or rather, our bodies, carry both sensuous and non-sensuous traces of the past, these are present not only as a form of remembrance, but as embodied memories. Our lived experiences are ingrained in ourselves, making us carry the past in our bodies. Through the embodied memory, there is a presence of different temporalities in one place and space simultaneously and cannot be separated; this day and time is part of a continuum that forms history.