“Reflections – the game of the shadows” is a collage of paper cut-outs, textile printings and knitting installations. The thematic comes from abstract images of water in its different forms; from frozen to melted water, from still to running water. On the surface of the water the shadows play their game. Most of the images have been taken in Northern Finland, where the rapid changes of seasons dominate the changes of light.

The shapes of the black and white paper cut-outs have transformed into colourful textile printings, and this transformation process led to the knitting installation. As a consequence, the collage is characterized by the metamorphosis of the almost minimalistic expression of the original black and white images into a colourful dance on the textile. Th e lights and shadows are never stable on the collage – like they are never stable in the Northern nature, where the four seasons with dark winters and midnight summer sun dominate their existence.


THE ARTISTS

Eija Timonen, Ph.D (Arts), is a professor of Media Studies at the University of Lapland in Finland and a Docent in Art and Design at Th e University of Aalto (UIAH), the School of Motion Picture, Television and Production Design in Helsinki. Timonen leads the Finnish Academy’s research project “Th e Aristotle in Change” (AinC). Her background is in cultural studies and in the audiovisual art and design. During the last twenty years, she has written several children’s books, as well as scripts for illustrated stories and miniature plays for children's television series and cd-roms. Timonen explores her many roles as a writer by focusing on the modifi cation of themes in traditional myths into modern literary works, audiovisual performances and interactive media. Contact: eija.timonen(a)ulapland.fi

Bettina Schülke (Mag.Art) is an Austrian artist, Ph.D, researcher and lecturer at the University of Lapland. Her research theme is “Transaction (Phenomenology of Space and Time Dimensions)”. In addition, she is currently the head of the Austrian Textile Company Backhausen’s research project on Smart Textiles. Schülke has exhibited her artworks widely in internationally prominent venues, like the 2nd Th essaloniki Biennale (GR), Shunt Lounge, London (GB), De Winkelhaak Design Museum, Antwerp (BE), Kemi Art Museum, Lume Mediakeskus, Helsinki (FI), the MAK-nite (Museum of Applied Arts), Vienna (AT) and textile works at the Austrian Pavilion at the 8th International Architecture Biennale in Venice (IT). She has lectured at the University of Fine Arts in Vienna (AT), the University of Lapland and the Kemi/Tornio University of Applied Science (FIN), and was co-organizer and participating artist at the prestigious e-MobiLArt project (European Mobile Lab for Interactive Artists). Contact: bettina.schülke(a)gmail.com.