Lotta Hänninen: Invisible Ink

The idea behind these works is human communication and the signs and symbols that are used for this. We usually take these so much for granted that they become almost invisible. When reading words we rarely stop to look at the form of individual letters.

Although the ink used in these murals is visible, the monotone colour surface conceals stamped markings, just as invisible ink hides a message in paper. The wall returns to being a painting.

The exhibition is supported by the Finnish Cultural Foundation and the Alfred Kordelin Foundation.

Lotta Hänninen (b. 1984) works with paintings and painting installations. She is interested in examining everyday imagery through painting. She graduated with a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Academy of Fine Arts in 2012. Her work has most recently been shown in solo exhibitions at Turku’s Gallery Å (‘Tallennettu nimellä’) in 2015 and Gallery Jangva in Helsinki (‘Valikoiva muisti’) in 2013, and in joint exhibitions at Forum Box (‘CATCH’) and MUU Kaapeli (‘Suoraan seinään’) in 2014.