Susanna Vuorio: Out of It, paintings
The HAA Gallery exhibition features paintings by Susanna Vuorio.
Photographer: Susanna Vuorio
Source: helsinki
Time:
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Address:
HAA Gallery
Suomenlinna C 1
00190 Helsinki
Contact details:
https://www.helsingintaiteilijaseura.fi/en/exhibitions/haa-gallery/
galleriat@helsingintaiteilijaseura.fi
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Helsinki Artists' Association
The HAA Gallery exhibition features paintings by Susanna Vuorio.
Vuorio says of her paintings: “When I start a new canvas, I don’t know what it will become. I don’t make plans. I don’t make sketches and I don’t paint after photographs. Usually it becomes a human figure, and it starts to tell me something.
Writers often say that their characters start to live their own lives. My process works in a similar fashion. I work on the painting until the figure and the situation becomes real. Sometimes it takes years, sometimes it’s a matter of a few days.
Lately, life has been precarious for many. Do you have to move away, or give up something important? Will there be a recession? Or a war? I think you can see it in my recent paintings. People are waiting, unsure if something is coming or not.
It’s a bit like Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, which I read when I was young in the 90s, during the previous big recession. People are pretending everything will continue as usual, pretending to know what tomorrow will bring. But people seem present and absent at the same time. Everyone seems to be a bit out of it..”
Susanna Vuorio (b. 1977) is a painter born in Lahti. Vuorio’s work has been exhibited in numerous solo and group shows.
HAA-Galleria
22.5.-15.6.2025
Tue–Thu 12.00–18.00
Fri–Sat 12.00–16.00
(Sun 12.00–16.00)
Free entry
