On Friday, 20 June at 5:00 p.m., Tuukka Kaila will open his solo exhibition “Visible Distance” in the monumental gallery of the Tartu Art House.
Visible Distance is a collection of artistic expeditions that use documenting and measuring instruments to make otherwise intangible experiences accessible. Their resulting recordings amplify relationships to site, location and flow of time.
Artistic processes often rely on underlying abstract principles that may or may not be rendered visible in their outputs. In the process, the artist is not necessarily aware of what comes out. The mode of research does not aim to give the observed phenomena clear meaning or fixed interpretations. It follows no premeditated logic because such a directed aim would reduce the process to already identified propositions. Rather, the artistic expedition suggests quantifiers and variables alternative to the sensed experience.
“The procedure is driven by intuition and speculation. Unintended effects and coincidental elements shape the form and articulation of the outcomes. The artistic expeditions are, indeed, experimental: they often do not seem to sense, but deliberately mix normally separate categories. They generate chance relations between different registers and confer their standards,” the artist explains.
Tuukka Kaila (b. 1975) is a Helsinki-based artist. He operates in expanded fields of photography, text and publishing. His work engages with questions of knowledge and representation, often materialising as spatial and temporal arrangements. Kaila forms one half of the publishing house Rooftop Press.
The exhibition will be open until 20 July.
Additional information: Maret Tamme, Producer of the Tartu Art House, produtsent@kunstimaja.ee, 5800 3882
