The Battle for Light
GalleriaKONE Hämeenlinna
2016
These exhibitions are based on my stay at the Arts Promotion Centre Finland residence in Genoa, Italy, in the autumn of 2014. Staglieno is a monumental sculpture park and cemetery in Genoa. The name of the exhibition refers to the cemetery paths and also on a more abstract level to the dance of death. The La Danza Macabra theme also symbolizes many other confrontations in life or public policy: light and darkness constantly battling for seasons and the human mind. A battle for the light of sense also seems to be going on in our society. Many of the Enlightenment ideals regarding human rights and equality – and even democracy – are being tested on a daily basis. The Battle for Light also refers to the battle in favor of a policy that the burden of the weakest should be shared in accordance with the ideals of a welfare state. In my Ecce Homo series I wonder whether it is possible to see the surface as well as beyond the surface – the flesh, blood and bones – at the same time and what one sees then.