A series of 3 temporary sculptures / installations:
I have conquered the Holy Mountain horizontally!
Jodorovsky’s Seat
&
I love the Mountains!
Years: 2017 – 2018
Size: approximately 90 x 60 x 50 cm
Materials: Wooden children’s chair, granite, wheat flour, vegetable oil, salt, food colouring, flash light, (ecological glitter)
About the work
Taking it’s title from a shout-out by a side-character in one of the last scenes towards the end of the epic and surreal film Holy Mountain by Alejandro Jodorowsky, the temporary sculpture I have conquered the Holy Mountain horizontally! as well as its follow-ups later the same year, entitled Jodorowsky’s Seat, and a yet one more follow up with the title I love the Mountains, were born out of the question: how are materials valued. How do we value different materials, and different kinds of labour? Also, the work was a play on how to hide and reveal the form of a found, heavy piece of granite that resembled the shape of a mini scale mountain. The rock was covered with self-made dough with a texture that resembles a bit that of marble. The play between visibility and invisibility, hiding and revealing, illusion and artificiality became elements of the work.
The idea of a ”temporary sculpture” is one that resembles performance: the work has a durance, it is not designed as a lasting object. It also is made of bio-degradable materials and therefore easily recyclable.
Individual pieces of the series were
I have conquered the Holy Mountain horizontally!
- Galleria Lapinlahti, Helsinki, 1. – 18.6.2017
- as part of Altistuminen, an exhibition with Azar Saiyar
Jodorovsky’s Seat
- Hilbertraum, Berlin, 29.9. – 8.10.2017
- as part of Shadows of Tomorrow, a group exhibition with Mikko Kallio, Pasi Mälkiä, Minna Suoniemi and Tatu Tuominen and a collaboration between Galleria Huuto and Hilbertraum.
I love the Mountains
- Supermarket Alternative Art Fair, Stockholm, 12.-15.4.2018
- as part of the exhibition Evidence Room by Galleria Huuto with Kasper Muttonen, Anna Broms, Marjo Levlin, Timo Tähkänen aka Maimu Brushwood, Kaarina Ormio, Veikko Björk and Azar Saiyar
