Johannes Rantapuska & Sauli Sirviö: Bad Gateways

When you step into these areas, time and place begin to slide in a liminal state, generating experiences and encounters. This adventure will take form at HAM Gallery as an exhibition where individual works will interpret the moods experienced along the way.

”Everyone should feel somewhat lost on a regular basis – it’s somehow healthy.”

A catalogue will be available in the gallery as an exhibition guide. The catalogue consists of a dialogue between the artists about drifting from the Finnish summertime to Greek ruins, from the Finnish railways to Athens’ underground tunnels.

Johannes Rantapuska (b. 1984) drifts from place to place. This can be seen in his creative work: projects without strict specifications, as long as they are interesting with like-minded colleagues. If this seems confusing, Rantapuska’s degree in graphic design helps to keep it all organised. So far, Rantapuska’s artistic work has been displayed mainly in public locations such as the temporary installations made in collaboration with Milja Havas that were exhibited in the Hudson River in New York City and the old bear castle at the Korkeasaari Zoo in Helsinki.

Sauli Sirviö (b. 1980) is an observer and a wanderer on planet Earth. In his art the actual situation in the field is as important than the final product in the exhibition space. He is working on a field of experimental documentary and his works are usually described as performative autofiction. Photography, video, writing, installations and collective working are the most common mediums in his work. Sirviö has graduated as a MFA from The Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki. He is one of the cofounders of artist run gallery SIC in Helsinki.

The exhibition has received support from the Arts Promotion Centre Finland.