Vernissage: Thursday, June 5, 2025, 6–9 PM
Henriikka Pöllänen, Riikka Haapasaari, EGS, Aleksi Marjamaa, Ella Varvio
The exhibition Transparent Language brings together five contemporary artists. Henriikka Pöllänen, Riikka Haapasaari, EGS, Aleksi Marjamaa, and Ella Varvio explore the conceptual and material potential of glass. Their methods, expressive languages, and backgrounds differ distinctly from one another.
Glass is seductive, shiny, dangerous, beautiful, and technically demanding. In the works presented, it functions as a tool for thought, a language that crystallizes in the form of sculpture, installation, video, as well as painting and drawing.
Each artist approaches glass from their own perspective, influenced by history either directly or through its deconstruction. This polyphony forms the core of the exhibition: through glass, each artist builds a language of their own.
Henriikka Pöllänen combines sculpting, fusing, and blowing glass into expressive reliefs and sculptures. The material carries both atmosphere and meaning. Abstract forms and figurative characters form a dialogical entity.
Riikka Haapasaari is interested in participation of non-human and unconscious agencies in different processes of filmmaking. Glass and other craft materials intertwine with an experimental movement and temporality that is both material and poetic.
EGS approaches glass from the perspective of graffiti's visual language. He transfers fast-paced expressions and working methods into glass sculptures. In this exhibition, the letters E, G, and S come to life in a new way.
Aleksi Marjamaa shapes large, rough glass sculptures in which glass speaks with force, weight, and mass. His visual language is solemn and archaic - yet surprisingly delicate and spatially communicative.
Ella Varvio creates visual memory images of places, encounters, and moments from her travels. Her drawings are influenced by the visual language of comics, blended with myth and folklore. Drawing meets glass, becoming encapsulated within it.