Ich bin
Siiri Haarla
Galleria Huuto Jätkäsaari – Jätkä 2
22.4.-7.5.2017
All Galleria Huuto’s exhibitions are open also on Sunday 30th April.
Wer ins Ausland geht profitiert in jedem Fall,
aber wer so lang im Ausland gewesen ist wie wir,
darf nicht zurück gehen.
– Thomas Bernhard / Heldenplatz
– Thomas Bernhard / Heldenplatz
The exhibition is about fear wearing off, surpassing oneself and the unavoidable subsequent feeling of emptiness. If life is obstacles on the way to satisfaction, that is also what art is. To want final, complete works is analogous with a desire to die. Creating images is acceptance of the reality, seeing the comic side of things, black laughter at the seriousness of life.
Painting is about revealing oneself and it is about revealing the reality, while it is also about changing the reality. Could it also be about changing oneself? Painting in the moment is complexity that arises from the accumulation of experiences, crashing into the simplifying clarity of the end looming ahead. I would like my paintings to compete with encountering a living person. I would like them to show what can be, what can be thought but what cannot be seen. Paintings drive me into crisis every day, their unlimited meanings and insignificance, which makes them individuals and for each of them their own existence is everything. An opportunity to exceed what has been done before and to change the world and a constantly available opportunity not to do that and its obvious unimportance…
Experiencing is about leaving time behind, passing it. Spending time abroad sharpens the passing of time, loss and the presence of death. When you leave, everything is new except the familiar left behind. When you come back, you will lose the new home and everything there only to find out that the old life no longer exists. No one remembers it the way you do, it has moved on along the tracks, past so many stops that even trees have become gray. Your life waits for you like a moldy oven mitt in the basement. Returning to what you left behind, a trip to your old life is like an opportunity to rise from your grave for one more week to see everything that used to be your life.
Painting is to see your life flash like a film of dreams amidst the clouds as the jet engines roar.
Siiri Haarla
siiri.haarla(a)gmail.com
