Sini Pelkki: Sheet No4

The title of the exhibition is an allusion to a contact sheet which contains all the frames of a roll of a film and is used to sketch out choices and make notes. 

One of the starting points of the work is a dialogue between Pelkki and various artists and the interaction and diverse interpretations embodied in those exchanges. The contributions come from multidisciplinary artists Emma Hammarén, Johan Jonason, Magnús Logi Kristinsson and Keiko Yamamoto, as well as cinematographer Pietari Peltola and sound designer Anne Tolkkinen.

The exhibition consists of an installation, containing moving image and photographs, which spans the two spaces of the HAM Gallery.

Sini Pelkki is a visual artist born in Helsinki in 1978. She has worked with photography since the late 1990s, and in the last ten years increasingly with moving image. Pelkki’s work has been shown at exhibitions and major festivals in Finland and abroad. Her piece Length was shown at Aboa Vetus & Ars Nova in Turku in 2016 and at SIC space in Helsinki in 2017.

Sini Pelkki studied art in London for four years, graduating with a BA (Hons) Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art and Design in 2002. She earned an MFA degree from the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts in 2008. In 2014 she was awarded the William Thuring Designated Prize by the Finnish Art Society. In 2017 Pelkki was nominated for the Below Zero Art Prize. Sini Pelkki’s creative work in 2017 was supported by the Finnish Cultural Foundation.

The production of Sheet No4 was supported by the Promotion Centre for Audiovisual Culture AVEK/Tuuli Penttinen-Lampisuo, Arts Promotion Centre Finland and VISEK Centre for the Promotion of Visual Art.