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PAX ET BONUM

A site-specific object in the corner of Tehtaankatu and Myllymäenkatu

24th July - 7th August 2011.

Artist's statement:

I chose this building for my object because of its location. It's not located in the old and very well renovated part of Rauma. It's a nice ordinary wooden house with curtains with sailboats and birds which are very trational for Rauma. These images look very cozy and they symbolize a wish for changes and hope for a better future.

What means home for a human being? It's a sanctuary where you can keep yourself safe from the outer worl and a place where you will begin the journey into the world. It's the place where you can share your moments of happiness and suffering.

People have created wise aphorisms like "Home sweet home" and "My home is my castle". In Riga there are buildings featuring such maxims on their facades.

But what does a home mean in the modern society? Many people have no money to buy a place of their own or even rent one. There is also a great number of homeles people all around the world. Rauma today is like a small place of paradise but what about the other world? What will happen with the developing and changing global society? I believe we still have hope...

- Raumars artist Iveta Laure

EILEN-TÄNÄÄN-HUOMENNA. VAKAR-SODIEN-RIT.

Installation in the windows of Busstop clothing concept store

14th July - 4th August 2011

Artist's statement:

This is a conceptual project about our past and future -they seem so different but in reality they are almost the same. Time goes by but the human mind hasn't changed -there have been only some changes and inventions in technology.

By accident I got a ready-made lace curtain from a friend of mine from my hometown Riga. His grandmother, almost a hundred years old, passed away and left behind a big wardrobe full of old things. The young generation wanted to keep only a few of them. They showed me the things they were going to throw away and I decided to save some of them, including a beautiful hand-made curtain which became the starting point of my project.

converted by Web2PDFConvert.com I made a copy of the curtain's pattern but in a more contemporary way -drawing on fabric. It made the fabric look like the original curtain's photo negative in black colour.

In a flea market in Rauma I found some lace and nice old underwear: a shirt and pants which gave me the idea to show these things in a very contemporary way. I made new clothes mimicking the patterns of the old ones. I used also modern fabrics in this specific project. A big challenge for me was to use the world famous Marimekko fabric in one of the garments.

This project is like a dialogue between the old and the new -a dialogue between generations. I am going to continue this project with a short video. I have already done the filming and sent the material to Riga for editing and soundtrack. Hopefully I can show the video in the Black lace night in Rauma.

-Raumars artist Iveta Laure

TALKING LACE inauguration on Monday 25th July at 5 pm.

At Porintie & Kaunisjärvenkatu underpass. The art work is on display until 4th August.

W ELCOME!

Artists IVETA LAURE & Isabella Aadeli, Emma Hirsimäki, Veeti Kaitila, Jenna Lehtinen, Ossi Maaninka, Veera Maaninka, Henrietta Meriö, Iris Nordman, Helmi Salminen, Taimi Salminen, Noora Teerinkoski, Venla Uskali ja Eemeli Varinen.

Latvian artist Iveta Laure has worked in residence since the middle of May. In June she instructed a workshop, for 8-14 - year-olds, where a six meter long "legal graffiti" was made. In this Talking Lace - workshop Laure instructed the young how to use the hole stencil -technique in printing patterns on fabric. "I love- I hate" -thoughts of the young were first printed on t-shirts and bags and then on a fabric which will be placed in the underpass near the hospital. The left side of the art work represents love and the right side hate. It's interesting to see that the same thing could be an object of love for one person and for another an undesirable or neutral thing.

The hole stencil -technique mimics lace, and Laure has used both the technique and the lace in her previous art work on some streets in Latvia. Now she wanted to combine these two with the lace culture in Rauma and create a contemporary lace work which expresses the thoughts of the young.

The background of this "graffiti" is in the right to express one's feelings but also in the provocative illegalness. Streets have been the stage of public art since the situationistic movement in the late 1950's but nowadays the public space, especially the streets, has been filled with different kinds of advertisements rather than art or opinions. Is the youth's voice heard in the public space? Faithfull to the style of the graffiti worldwide, the Talking Lace -work is in the underpass, in a place where it's supposed to be in order to be seen.

Sponsored by Taikalamppu / Aladin's Lamp, Pori Centre for Children's Culture - Network of Children's Culture in Satakunta and Värirauma. In collaboration with Rauma Art School.

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Distance Making & Reducing exhibition at Galleria 3H+K, Maaherrankatu 32, Pori, 2. - 24.4. Opening 1st April 6-8 pm. At the opening a cooking performance by curator Mary Hyunhee Song (Korea). Welcome! Artists: Marianne Csaky (Hungary/Belgium), Roxana Manouchehri (/Ireland), Aurinna Marstio, Gigi Scaria (), Kiwoun Shin (Korea/UK), Heikki Takala and Tiina Vehkaperä. As a collaboration with the exhibition Kiwoun Shin video work "Reality Test" will be shown at STX ltd / Rauma shipyard canteen during April.

Raumars presents resident curator Mary Song’s exhibition ‘Distance Making & Reducing’ by 7 multinational artists. This exhibition has been proposed by Mary Song when she applied for her curator residency at Raumars ry. Since then, she developed her theme through her research on different culture, different material, different ideologies, as well as physical distance human being creates. While she stays in Finland, she also contacted with local artists who are participating in the exhibition as well under the theme of Distance Making & Reducing.

In this exhibition, there will be several video works by Csaky, Scaria, and Shin, those who went through National Studios of Changdong in Korea as well as Manouchehri who focuses on the gap between Persian tradition and modern life we live in.

converted by Web2PDFConvert.com Csaky’s video DELETE shows the way of deleting memories, and Shin’s series of grinding shows the process of this deleting or disappearing. Many of Scaria’s videos also show the contrast, especially social and architectural stuructures in his videos. Vehkaperä’s installation physically proves this contrast between two different distances when you try to look at yourself through her work. Takala’s sound project gives you this two different distance into more meditative and surreal level of ordinary life and its sound he creates or records. Marstio's dress pattern paper work shows the different aesthetics of using the same material in a sculptural way. A lot of her works are also related to nostalgia, which is a huge distance about our time, the past.

The distance human being makes is amazing. Not just about physical distance, but mental distance as well as emotional distance. This distance sometimes creates such a huge misunderstanding of what the other side is or has. In many cases, artists are trying to reduce this distance through their artwork, however, you sometimes have to create your own distance to look things better especially for a proper perspective towards a certain thing.

Publication

The exhibition catalog under the same title as the exhibition, Distance Making & Reducing will be published on the opening day of the exhibition by Korea Art Council.

Exhibition is supported by Korea Art Council and STX Finland Oy/Rauma shipyard. Thanks to Tekniset Mäntynen, Pori Art Museum and Rauma Art Museum.

Events in the context of the exhibition

Wednesday Lecture Series by Residence Artists

Rauma city library, Alfredinkatu 1, at 6-7 pm. Lectures are in English.

Wed 6th April Marianne Csaky: Recent works and Public project". Lecture's main focus on her reent public art project in Brussels, her photos, videos and light boxes. More www.mariannecsaky.be Wed 13th April Roxana Manouchehri "When you travel with your art" Wed 20th April Mary Hyunhee Song "Why do people care about art?"

*** MIZUHO MATSUNAGA partisipates Rauma Art Museum exhibition Middle of Nowhere with her installation "Infinity". January 27th at 5 pm is the day for a movie night at Rauma Art Museum! Jade Warrior, inspired by the and majesty of the , tells the tale of a lovestruck hero fighting against the restrictions of modern life and searching for love beyond time and place. In the course of his journey to be reunited with his love, he re- discovers his true origin, his skill as a warrior, and his unique destiny.Jade Warrior

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Workshop: / Looking for In the Kalevala, the Sampo was a magical artifact of indeterminate type constructed by that brought good fortune to its holder. According the story Sampo was smashed and lost at sea. W hat and where is Sampo? Everyone has it's own Sampo and it gives many miracles not only to you, but also to other people. We make our own Sampo with cake lace, water colour and crayons. After the workshop, works will be laminated and hang in the museum courtyard with lights. Time: Week 4 Tue 25.1 Group 1 at 10-12pm Wed 26.1. Group 2 at 10-12pm to 27.1. Group 3 at 10-12pm Workshop Languages: Finnish and English, (German) Participants: 7-11 years Group size: max 24 Participant Fee: 2 e Leader: Mizuho Matsunaga more information available from Rauma Art Museum

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