Helsinki Photo Festival & Nikita Kodak at Pasila Urban Art Center 8.8.โ14.9.2019
In the second exhibition of Pasilan kaupunkitaidekeskus (Pasila Urban Art Center) we present urban photography of Diego Salvida and Niina Vehmaa as part of Helsinki Photo Festival. In addition to that, we also show a collection of screen prints of Russian artist Nikita Khodak, who also paints two murals in Pasila before the exhibition.
๐๐ถ๐ฒ๐ด๐ผ ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐น๐ฑ๐ถ๐๐ฎ, ๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐น
๐๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ด ๐ข ๐๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ต๐ช๐ญ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐บ ๐จ๐ฆ๐ต ๐๐ถ๐ฏ๐ค๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต๐ฉ
While Diego Saldiva was working on his project Giants (where he photographed wrestlers at training and events), he raised the hypothesis that a part of the current lack of interest in this type of sport is that thereโs no spectacle.
That’s how Diego found Streetbeefs. From the comfort of his chair, in front of his own computer, he came across a Youtube channel where ordinary people fight without any technique, but with a lot of desire. The fights are dedicated to people who get involved in disputes in their neighborhood but lack skills to find a solution peacefully. So they rather go into a duel to find the solution. In dictionaries, for example: A duel is refined as a formal fight in the past, using guns or swords, arranged between two people as a way of deciding an argument.
โEverybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth” – Mike Tyson
๐ก๐ถ๐ถ๐ป๐ฎ ๐ฉ๐ฒ๐ต๐บ๐ฎ๐ฎ, ๐๐ถ๐ป๐น๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ
๐๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฆ๐ด
Niina Vehmaa is interested in portraying people who are the bearers of some sort of unique style and appearance. However, her work is not limited to simply the external but going deeper in revealing the soul – deep down under whatever that is. The images on display endorse the idea of being the self and not complying to any generally accepted socio-cultural norms or structures.
๐ก๐ถ๐ธ๐ถ๐๐ฎ ๐๐ต๐ผ๐ฑ๐ฎ๐ธ, ๐ฅ๐๐๐๐ถ๐ฎ
๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐บ ๐๐ช๐ฏ๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐๐ข๐ต๐ข
What does it mean to be a human and most importantly what will our lives look like at the point of total digitalisation is the essential question of Nikita Khodakโs exhibition. Weakly Linked Data is comprised of a series of screen prints in which the artist reflects on his own anxiety about the future digitalisation of humankind. In his work, Khodak identifies the human weaknesses and technological defects that he considers as foremost dangerous for humankind and that he sees as a potential catalyst for the technological apocalypse, such as thirst for superficial glories, consumerism or intelligent data collection.
Khodak, Virgin.
Khodak, Internet.
Vehmaa, Sound of Silence.
Saldiva, Wild Whitey.
