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7/11/2002

Tiina Ketara

Mogadishni Cph, Copenhagen

"Right Now"


Opening reception: Friday, November 8, 7-11pm

Ketara has been making bead works that hang from the ceiling and expand into the room for over two years now. Tiina Ketara has been working as a visual artist for ten years. Born in Ylivieska, Finland in 1965, at the turn of the 1990s, she studied simultaneously at art schools in Paris and Helsinki.

One example of her glass pearl works is the glass bead piece ”La Marque du Sang” (“Mark of Blood”) shown in Paris last winter, which reflected the light, filtering it through its red beads. Its hovering, wave-shaped mass of beads was like a body, fleshy and flooded with living fluids.

Ketara’s journey to becoming an installation maker has thus been a long and diverse one, bringing together many of the forms of contemporary art.

There has been the occasional reminder of her fondness for surrealism, too, for instance, in the autobiographical ”Puny” drawings, whose androgynous young main character acted out everyday incidents in a highly aphoristic and laconic manner. Ketara also seemed to be using these straightforward crayon drawings to explore various forms of communication.

Tiina Ketara (Finland - lives and works in Paris and Helsinki)

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