Dry drops in the floor and

Jaana Laakkonen

7–25.4.2021


MAA-tila Project Space and Jaana Laakkonen invite you

to visit (t)he(i)r exhibition and recent artworks:

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Dry drops in the floor and

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on cotton, kneeled and written cotton,

thought and babbled cotton

i left, and left a hole with cotton

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the corners roll up and down and around

taking the fabric further away from the ground,

that will be touched again if the nails are removed

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a towel radiator showed me a colour and stripes,

a water damage practiced symmetry with the folds,

like, and not like, the four-years-ago molds

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i can't sym-

(i spread ink with ~40cm long Catalpa pods,

watery ink with foam sponge pieces,

some shapes appear and dis...)

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a stretch

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i find patterns and hand them

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for the lights

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Dry drops in the floor and


Jaana Laakkonen is an artist born in 1985 in Joensuu, Finland, currently living and working in Helsinki. In her exhibition in MAA-tila Project Space, she continues her recent years' practice with paint and feminist posthumanism. In 2021 Jaana's works can be encountered also in Oksasenkatu 11 and in a form of book called They Inhabit While Working, published by Archive Books. The practice that led to this exhibition was kindly funded by Kone Foundation.