LAByrinth
LAByrinth was a joint exhibition with an installation kind of nature; It was built mainly from material found around the Campus Allegro, where the Gallery Whitebox is located. Instead of staying only inside of the Whitebox, we decided to fill the empty campus area between the gallery and library with a whole art experience.
Nicole Hjelt, Ivana Milosavljevic, Veera Rislachius | Galleria White Box 8.3 - 31.3.2022
“LAByrinth is an exhibition jointing three young artists, in which each of the artists presents the works independently, without limiting the themes or concepts - with the installation-like nature of the exhibition linking the artists' works into a coherent whole.
As an exhibition, LAByrinth reflects artist’s ongoing laboratory with the mind and materials; exploration, experimentation and curiosity, development, a process through an endless labyrinth. Intersections, decisions, dead-ends leading towards the new directions - every route of the labyrinth still connected to each others.
The exhibition includes works presented in more traditional formats, such as paintings, drawings and sculptures, as well as video and performance works and installations.”
LAByrinth was a joint exhibition with an installation kind of nature; It was built mainly from material found around the Campus Allegro, where the gallery White Box is located. Instead of staying only inside of the Whitebox, we decided to fill the empty campus area between the gallery and library with a whole art experience. Physical building of the labyrinth started 8 days before the vernissage, with painting the originally planned walls and starting to get them standing.
During the building, we realised - we want to get it bigger, we need more walls. We went around the campus, looking all of the possible storages and scrap plates we could find - and with some walls, we had to get a little bit creative to correct them straight and stable. At some point, we even screw off our own studio walls to continue the labyrinth.
From every route you took at the labyrinth, you could find your way inside of the Whitebox. Inside-space of the gallery came out to be one kind of an image of a living room; installation with four televisions and two computer screens, showing our video works - and old couch, chairs and living room table. With these, we had two separate, independent installations placed at both ends of the space.
After intensive working, long days and long nights, we were happy to see the vernissage full of curious people to experience the LAByrinth.
Special thanks for my fellow exhibiting artist Nicole Hjelt and Whiteboxer Alexander Granqvist for sacrificing their night sleeps for the LAByrinth.
Österbottenstidning © Kevin Åkerlund
LAByrinth versnissage, videostills. Videography by Kevin Åkerlund.
Illiquefactus, Acrylics on canvas, 2022 | Deactivated, Oil on canvas, 2022
LABYRINTH IN THE MEDIA
https://www.osterbottenstidning.fi/Artikel/Visa/564339
https://www.keskipohjanmaa.fi/uutinen/635234
“Making of/behind the scenes” material from LAByrinth you can see from Gallery White Box Stories HERE.