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2019
Father
Site-specific installation
Stålhandske Chapel
Turku Cathedral
Turku, Finland 2019
The Father examines energy and transformation as well ass loss and renunciation. By moulding from clay the shape of the father, artist traces down the moments of closeness and bodily memories. It is based on the experience of washing her father’s dead body prior to its burial. This ritual evoked a strong feeling of both presence and absense in her.
Important part of the site-specific installation is the blue, starry ceiling of the Stålhandske Chapel known also as the Chapel of All souls. Under this sky lies a figure composed of the same materials as universe, you and me. Matters like silicon dioxide (SiO2) and hydrocarbon (organic compounds of C and H) have been here since the Big Bang and like stars, we are shaped from those. There is the blurry line between life and death. Where does a human being begin and end? What is matter, spirit and energy?
Rantala’s installation was part of the Scenes project curated by artist Eero Merimaa. Scenes consists of contributions by visual artists Markku Haanpää, Marjatta Holma, Eero Merimaa and Nina Rantala, philosopher Antony Fredriksson, art historian Riikka Niemelä and a photo-essay by photographer Niko Tampio in the publication.
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