Road Game, 2021

The Road Game exhibition in Gallery Huuto in Helsinki in December 2021 was a collaborative project between myself, Leena Kangaskoski and Emma Rönnholm. A series of ceramic sculptures formed a kind of a crossword puzzle on the gallery’s chess patterned floor. The floor tiles determined what size the sculptures were. A series is made by one artist, but at the point where two series cross the starting point for the another sculpture is a feature from the previous artist’s work. The entire sculpture becomes a word game. The names of the individual sculptures also form a crossword puzzle.

The theme of the work centred on change and the pressure to constantly improve and train ourselves at work, in human relationships and as a person. Each of us designed unwritten rules for their own series of sculptures and gave form and size to the vague concept of self development. We worked together, side by side and found inspiration in the others’ art and the differences in our artistic expressions.

The installation included glass plates supported and illuminated on kiln columns. The light effects were realised by Pietu Pietiäinen.