Around

Visual artist Inka Bell’s work, Around, is a play of colour, form, and architecture. The work for Pakila Primary School and Daycare Eloisa on Elontie Street is installed on a column in the cafeteria. Blue and rust-coloured triangular steel elements twine around the column that runs through the building.

The rhythmic arrangement of colours, forms, and shadows stimulates vision and creates an impression of movement round the column. Additionally, Bell’s work brings the forms of ancient Greece and classical architecture’s fluting – the vertical grooves on columns – into the present day.

Inka Bell (b. 1981) works in the expanded field of printmaking, sculptural paper works, and public art. In her practice, Bell explores the relationship between the two-dimensional and three-dimensional and the basic elements of image making, such as form, material, colour, and repetition. Bell’s works take viewers into non-verbal observation and their inner emotions. Her earlier work Rotation was completed in the Pakila school premises on Halkosuontie Street in 2022.

The work belongs to the City of Helsinki’s art collection, which is managed and curated by HAM.