Exhibition

In May and June 2019 the Between Island artists worked in AARK to produce new works. The works are exhibited in and near the Archipelago Center Korpoström, as well as in selected locations in Kimito and Kökar.

Lilli Haapala: Seeds of Utopia

Lilli Haapala’s work Seeds of Utopia consists of several small sculptures that can be found from the beaches of three different islands during summer 2019, in Örö, Korpoström and Kökar. Shapes of sculptures have been influenced by the forms of corals and seeds and they can be seen as golden sea seeds leached to the shores of islands, describing new ideas, dreams or opportunities. On the other hand, the works are like traces of the past, as well as fragments of valuable cities left under the sea.

Elisa Matikainen: Plastic Rain / Sleeping Catastrophy

How far can microplastics travel, the unvisible plastic dust which is filling also our atmosphere? What if the raindrops find more and more often a tiny plastic dust as their core and the flying microplastics come down as a rain? What if one day the rainbow is ”made of plastic”?  Numerous studies have been published on microplastic in marine environment, but we know little about these pollutants in continental environments. Only few studies are focused on the presence of microplastics in the air. Almost no research is being done on nanoplastics in the air and their impacts on human health and the environment.

Grace Phillips: The Reach: An Erotic Dilemma

The Reach: An Erotic Dilemma is a live performance for Maria V. Vatanen (actor) and Emma Myllynen (kantele player). It is a brief window into the experience of one tourist as she visits an island in archipelago and wanders away from her tour group. The piece is derived from Anne Carson's book Eros, the Bittersweet, and the hallucinations to be found on Örö Island. It comes out of a collaborative process with the performing artists.

The Reach: An Erotic Dilemma will be performed at the Dalsbruk market square stage on Sunday 30th June, 7 PM.

Maria Windschüttel: LUOTO (Space Oddity)

During Between Islands Maria Windschüttel created several artworks for her long term environmental art project LUOTO – with chalk on rock, under and above the water. For the documentary of these temporary works she used fine art photography, combining interdisciplinary artistic layers to conceive one otherworldly narrative, such as seen in the exhibition in Korpoström.

Marco Dessardo: PunkTerhi390

PunkTerhi390 is a compact sculling and sailing boat made out of the crossing of two crafts: a Finnish Terhi 390 plastic boat from the 1970s, previously belonging to the Korpoström farmer Reinhard Jansson, and a discarded Italian surfboard designed in the 1980s by yacht designer Andrea Vallicelli. Both were collected from Korpo, recycled, and made into a sculpture. Propulsion is provided by a square sail and two single oar systems, a Chinese ancestral patented yuloh and an original godille from the French Brittany. PunkTerhi390 was sailed by the artist in Korpo Retais in the Turku Archipelago before being installed at Korpoström.