Drawing flows on the wall

 

K. Tschährä at work.

K. Tschährä's drawings in group exhibition at Finlayson area.

My works were on show in a group exhibition 4th December 2021 - January 2022. I had eleven drawings I had made on black paper. The space was excellent: own wall for my drawings and behind it, a big space for my artvideo Trance (A Dream) which was on show for the first time. Very exciting! The idea was that the visitor has a feeling s/he is in the same space with the shaman. The video was filmed in the neighboring hall, so it has also similar pillars in it.

K. Tschährä: Trance (A Dream), video, 2021. (Still photo)

Exhibition was situated in a big hall that used to be a weaving hall for cotton textile company Finlayson & Co. The building is very old, from 1837. It was the first building in Finland designed to be a factory. The space is beautiful with the original pillars and meters and other visually interesting things. Nowadays Printmaking Studio / Gallery Himmelblau organizes exhbitions for the space and in summertime it's part of a big art event, Finlayson Art Area, produced by Himmelblau.

We had 16 artists in the group exhibition, we did everything by ourselves; building the extra walls, painting the walls and installing the artworks. The space was finalized with spot lights. I used special, black folios to cover the lights from the edges so the light was spotted on the works very sharply giving a mysterious result. Being an artists takes also talent to be a handy-person. :) Gladly I got help from the others.

I was very happy with the hanging, I think that it has a good flow. Smaller works were framed in a "tight-vitrine" frames with museum glass. (Drawings have so small details that you see them better through a museum glass that won't reflect the light.)

Three drawings I attached on the wall with magnets. I continued two biggest works by drawing on the wall. It made a nice touch that the motive continues to the space and the work is only a small glimpse to a bigger motive around us. I used the same roll-point pens; glimmering color pens, gold and pink.

K. Tschährä: Pink Mycelium and Gilded Cracks of Time, both 2021.