In the framework of AIR exchange organised in collaboration with FRAME FUND & HIAP, Helsinki, Finland, the artist invited for a residency at g-mk in Zagreb is Pilvi Takala.
Pilvi Takala works with narrative forms such as video or artists books, which are based on interventions or actions in specific social settings. With these subtle interventions teh artist creating situations, where the
unwritten rules and shared truths are revealed, questioned and eventually reinvented.
The work often has a visual language of documentation or evidence, such as candid camera aesthetics, and the situation and setting we see is always something very everyday, something that could easily happen to any of us. Even if the work has elements suggesting fiction, the
separation of fact and fiction becomes unimportant. By bringing the work very close to real life, Takala tryies to make more visible the small miracles that seem unreal, but actually are possible.
She is ”interested in looking at the social rules we follow in different situations and finding ways of pushing the limits of our tolerance to create openings, exceptions in everyday life that allow us to see something in a place we thought was empty.’
Pilvi Takala: Outshiners_solo exhibition @ g-mk
Pilvi Takala, born in Helsinki 1981, currently lives and works in Amsterdam. She graduated from Finnish Academy of Fine Arts 2006 (MFA).
She took part in the 9th Istanbul biennial 2005, and for developing new work for the biennial she did a residency in Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center in Istanbul. Other commissions for site-specific work include a performance for “Liefde in de Stad” by PARADISO/SKOR in Amsterdam 2005 and a solo show “Wallflower” in Rael Artel Gallery, Pärnu and Tallin 2006, for which the work was produced in Pärnu.
2007 she had a solo shows in Frac des Pays de la Loire, France and in FaFa-gallery, Helsinki and a 2-man show in Galeria Noua, Bucharest. Her work has also been shown in “songs of Freedom and Love”, Platform Garanti, Istanbul 2006; “In search of the miraculous” 5th Triennial of Finnish Art in Kunsthalle Helsinki 2007 and Consequences and Proposals – Biennale of Young Artists, Tallinn 2007.
