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  1. Dialogues/What Passes Between -exhibition opening at Viimsi

    Today, the exhibition we have done together with Matti Vainio opens at the Viimsi Kunstikool gallery in Estonia. The exhibition continues our collaborative work and focuses on drawing at a very existential level, examining how a line forms and when it becomes part of something that might then affect the way the line forms. When does something become something else? In particular, when does a drawn line start to represent something figurative, emotional or logical? Is there a way for the line not do that? If yes, what happens then? These old (modernist?) questions intrigue us. For me, it shows…

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  2. Vernissage today 21.10 at 7pm, welcome!

    Exhibition at Gallerie Pleiku: Tomi Slotte Dufva: Beer as Material and Landscape I like beer. I am not alone – around 177.5 million kiloliters of beer are consumed worldwide each year. In Finland, the average annual consumption is approximately 72 litres per person – a considerable amount, yet only half of the impressive 184 litres per capita consumed in the Czech Republic. Beer is one of humanity’s oldest beverages, with a history stretching back thousands of years. The word “beer” derives from Germanic languages (bier, birra) and is connected to the Latin verb bibere, meaning “to drink.” In ancient Egypt,…

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  3. Discussions with the machine

    I am having an exhibition together with Matti Vainio at TM-gallery in Helsinki, Finland. The theme of the exhibition is the discourse between human and technology. We want to examine and question that relationship between through drawing. Patient little Malevich at work in exhibition with @matti_vainio_artist at @tmliitto gallery in Helsinki. #art #exihibition #robot #arduino #trinket #arttech #gallery #helsinki French philosopher Bernard Stiegler has called technology as a pharmacon: a drug that at the same times saves and destroys (by addiction, misuses, overuse, etc.). As technology, especially digital technology becomes ubiquitous the importance of how we live with the technology…

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