Reflections – Mirroring Structures and Complexities in pluriversal art-based dialogues with the youth, 30.11. - 16.12.2021 University of Lapland
The joint exhibition presents encounters and collaboration taking place during the SEEYouth project in 2020–2021 through art-based actions and dialogues. It brings together youth from across the Atlantic, sharing thoughts and experiences through videos and illustrations. This shared dialogue is accompanied by artworks, from different fields of art and design, created by students and professionals including members of the international SEEYouth Consortium. The exhibition shows the process of developing new connections, learning and re-learning together with the youth. The exhibition presents encounters and Transatlantic collaboration with young people in the form of photographs, installations and videos. The exhibition features works from Finland and Brazil.
The poster exhibition on Galleria Seinä brings the thoughts of young South Americans to Rovaniemi, and Galleria Hämärä presents collections of works that focus on the projects main theme, mirroring, from different perspectives. Mirroring is social, environmental, cultural and visual, and it is more than learning from others; the common process produces something new and moves towards cross-border polyphony, bringing out the latent and marginalized. The works highlight the co-operation between the young people involved and the researchers and experts, describing e.g. working on art-based methods in workshops held in Finland in 2020-2021. The exhibition features an installation built by young people, consisting of materials created in the workshops. Also, on display are photographs taken by Mikko Ylisuvanto, Katri Konttinen and Mosi Herati from 2020-2021. Photographer Mosi Herati’s documentary video work SEEYouth: Strengthening the Involvement of Young People through Art and Social Work, describes the workshop work in Southern Finland in May 2021. Satu Miettinen’s photography series My Reflection, others reflection, focuses on how do we see young people and how do young people see us? What do we want others to see? The portraits feature the young people involved and the workshop facilitators / researchers. In Mari Riikonen’s installation work, The World Tree supports the network that connects us. The tree is a symbol and structure of living nature and the whole world. Today, much of the encounters take place through a network - ones and zeros. The living and the breathing encounter the inanimate and the neutral while enabling and excluding both. Katri Konttinen’s work Messages in the bottles, describes a two-year collaboration with young people. Messages in the bottles has been one of the project’s themes and has been virtually Transatlantic for two years.
The exhibition continues from the galleries to the Agora hall, from where a colourful and kinetic textile installation built on the upper floors opens: FLAG - A SHARED HORIZON. The installation mirrors the shared horizon of first-year Faculty of Arts students and visualizes the voices, emotions, feelings, and stories of young people who participated in the SEEYouth / AMASS project workshop in the aftermath of the corona pandemic. Shared stories, through colours, shapes, light, and movement, produced different approaches to the challenges posed by the corona pandemic. The installation flags young people’s feelings, thoughts and stories, although not everything goes according to plan. The bright yellow ART IN PROGRESS banner hanging in the lobby is reminiscent of the process-like nature of art, research and the workshop.
The exhibition is held in galleries Hämärä and Seinä, continuing to the central lobby Agora at the Faculty of Art and Design, University of Lapland.
The opening ceremony is on the 29th November at 6PM (EET).
You can read more about the exhibition from
Exhibition works_Reflections_2021.pdf
At Agora hall a colourful and kinetic textile installation was built on the upper floors opens: FLAG - A SHARED HORIZON. The installation mirrors the shared horizon of first-year Faculty of Arts students and visualizes the voices, emotions, feelings, and stories of young people who participated in the SEEYouth / AMASS project workshop in the aftermath of the corona pandemic. Shared stories, through colours, shapes, light, and movement, produced different approaches to the challenges posed by the corona pandemic. The installation flags young people’s feelings, thoughts and stories, although not everything goes according to plan. The bright yellow ART IN PROGRESS banner hanging in the lobby is reminiscent of the process-like nature of art, research and the workshop.
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