Growing Connections
Artist :Kaarina Kaikkonen
FinlandLocation : The Lath House, VanDusen Botanical Garden
Media : Recycled Clothing
As with many of her other works, Finnish artist Kaarina Kaikkonen installed this piece as a site-specific installation. Working in unusual spaces both indoors and out, these in-situ works are made by assembling recycled clothing in new configurations. The garments suggest their human shape and former use, now transcending their use as fashion or protection. Re-imagined and collectively shaped by the artist as an abstract form, Kaikkonen’s floating and hung cloth forms give new life to the threadbare. The shapes, textures and colors, of pieces from numerous lives come together to form a coherent collective sculptural form.
This work is trying to show that people are like trees. Growing all the time. It is a kind of society, a collection of different people, different family trees. Children and women are on the roof, towards the light and sunshine, creating new life and making connections. Men are in the shadows, they are the trunks and the roots.
For more information visit the artwork page on www.vblearn.ca
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