KRISTIINA UUSITALOHow Can I tell Wind from Breath 2.1.2022 – 30.1.2022

How can I tell wind from breath III, 2020
oil, dry pigment, artificial resin and wax on MDF-board
205 x 205 cm

Kristiina Uusitalo gives us fractions of moments that escalate into beings. Somewhere a lived past turns into an inviting actuality. Uusitalo suggests these actualities form themselves over and over again. Thus they always appear anew.

Uusitalo seems to be definite with the significance of light. For her, the light is a revealer. The light reveals the instances, the short seconds, where we are already about to lose it. The instances where the light is still present but has already slipped out of our reach. This moment for Uusitalo is a simile for awareness, comprehension and perception. It is as if she asks us to look closer. More precise. And by so doing to know that we are about to fail this moment, this possibility, of light and what it can entail.

It is appealing to understand these portrayals of light as metaphors of our current state of life and living. However, Uusitalo does not imply that we are losing the battle we set ourselves to overcome. Just the contrary. Light equals hope. A future that is still possible. It is thus these moments Uusitalo stages in front of us to encounter and to consider, reminding us that these moments are something we have experienced in an abstract past.

Uusitalo composes her striking and timely depictions from actual moments, experiences and hope. Compositions do have a point of origin, a symbiosis of time and place, but they grow and become layered in their being. And eventually, as noted, they form themselves in front of us at each encounter, over and over again.

With this entity of works Uusitalo asks How can I tell wind from breath, waves from thoughts, an idea from a gust of wind. For her, we are nature. We are the wind. I breathe and the wind breathes in me. My thinking forms the waves in an ocean. It is in this unity revelations arise.

Aura Seikkula

 
  • uusitalo/2022/KU4694

    Into the clearest darkness II, 2021
    oil, dry pigment, artificial resin and wax on MDF board
    205 x 280 cm

  • uusitalo/2022/KU4695

    The clouds roam through me II, 2020
    oil, dry pigment, artificial resin and wax on MDF-board
    180 x 280 cm

  • uusitalo/2022/KU5081

    Into the clearest darkness I, 2020-2021
    oil, dry pigment, artificial resin, wax and aluminum leaf on MDF-board
    205 x 205 cm

  • uusitalo/2022/KU5079

    How can I tell wind from breath IV, 2021
    oil, dry pigment, artificial resin, vax and tin leaf on MDF-board
    205 x 205 cm

  • uusitalo/2022/KU1592

    Afterglow III, 2020
    oil, dry pigment, artificial resin and wax on MDF-board
    80 x 130 cm

  • uusitalo/2022/KU5089

    Afterglow VI , 2021
    oil, dry pigment, artificial resin and wax on MDF-board
    80 x 130 cm

  • uusitalo/2022/KU4710

    Afterglow IV, 2020
    oil, dry pigment, artificial resin and wax on MDF-board
    80 x 120 cm

  • uusitalo/2022/KU4711

    Fata Morgana I, 2021
    oil, dry pigment and wax on MDF-board
    60 x 60 cm

  • uusitalo/2022/KU4714

    How can I tell wind from breath III, 2020
    oil, dry pigment, artificial resin and aluminum leaf on MDF-board
    60 x 60 cm

  • uusitalo/2022/KU5102

    How can I tell wind from breath II, 2020
    oil, dry pigment, artificial resin and aluminum leaf on MDF-board
    60 x 60 cm

  • uusitalo/2022/KU4713

    Sights heard, sounds seen VI, 2021
    oil on MDF-board
    60 x 60 cm

  • uusitalo/2022/KU1593

    Sights heard, sounds seen IV, 2021
    oil, dry pigment, wax and artificial resin on MDF-board
    60 x 60 cm

  • uusitalo/2022/KU4716

    Fata Morgana II, 2021
    oil on MDF-board
    60 x 60 cm

  • uusitalo/2022/KU2913

    Sights heard, sounds seen V, 2021
    oil , dry pigment, artificial resin and wax on MDF-board
    60 x 60 cm

  • uusitalo/2022/KU5091

    Swallowed eyes II, 2021
    oil, dry pigment, artificial resin and wax on plywood
    80 x 122 cm

  • uusitalo/2022/KU2927

    Ilon rinnakkaissävellaji III,, 2021
    oil, vax and dry pigment on MDF-board
    40 x 40 cm

  • uusitalo/2022/KU4719

    Ilon rinnakkaissävellaji V, 2021
    oil, vax and dry pigment on MDF-board
    40 x 40 cm

 
 
 
 
 
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