INTRODUCTION :
Anima Mundi are proud to present ’The Company of Others' by Finnish artist Jarno Vesala.
Vesala's emotive and empathic installations often incorporate a complex multitude of media resulting in deeply affecting environments which play with the act of perception, memory and illusion. These empathetically and physically immersive encounters are perplexing, mysterious and unsettling. Recurrent humanistic themes relate to solitude and intimacy are made manifest and palpable through his unique rendering.
'The Company of Others' contains two new installation works. ‘Portrait of a Father and Daughter’, a ‘mono no aware' installation work incorporating life size sculpture and projection, reflects on the ephemeral transcience of existence, and desire to freeze frame precious moments of intimacy. ‘Pala Taloa (Piece of a House)’ continues a personal narrative through a visual and emotive layering of intimate encounters, once again slowing down the passage of time to hold on to the intimate. Both of these works are exhibited for the very first time at the gallery.
Vesala's emotive and empathic installations often incorporate a complex multitude of media resulting in deeply affecting environments which play with the act of perception, memory and illusion. These empathetically and physically immersive encounters are perplexing, mysterious and unsettling. Recurrent humanistic themes relate to solitude and intimacy are made manifest and palpable through his unique rendering.
'The Company of Others' contains two new installation works. ‘Portrait of a Father and Daughter’, a ‘mono no aware' installation work incorporating life size sculpture and projection, reflects on the ephemeral transcience of existence, and desire to freeze frame precious moments of intimacy. ‘Pala Taloa (Piece of a House)’ continues a personal narrative through a visual and emotive layering of intimate encounters, once again slowing down the passage of time to hold on to the intimate. Both of these works are exhibited for the very first time at the gallery.
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BIOGRAPHY:
Jarno Vesala was born in Rauma in 1977. He currently lives and works in Nokia, Finland. Vesala graduated as a visual artist at the Tampere University of Applied Sciences' degree program in arts and communication in 2004. She has first exhibited in Tampere in 2003. Vesala's works have been featured in Mänttä's art festivals 2008, Kluuvin galleria 2009, Pirkanmaa triennial 2009 and 2012, Helsinki Art Museum 2011 and Forum Box 2012. He was selected as the Finnish Young Artist of the Year in 2013. In 2014, Vesala won the Turku Biennale Prize with his work with Krister Gråhn. In addition Vesala has featured in numerous exhibitions internationally including 'Out of Our Heads' curated by James Putnam and Vassiliki Tzanakou in 2014, his debut solo exhibition ‘Being There’ at Anima Mundi in 2016 followed by 'Far is the False and Deceitful World' in 2018 and the Nordic Delights festival in Soho, London in 2018.
