Past Residents
Past Resident2018: Alfred Kordelin Foundation, Finnish Cultural Institute in New York
Elina Suoyrjö
Elina Suoyrjö is a curator currently based in Turku, where she is director of the art space Titanik. Her curatorial practice revolves around working collaboratively and site-specifically with artists. She has an MA in curating from Stockholm University and MAs in both art history and gender studies from the University of Helsinki. She is currently finishing her PhD research about feminist new materialist curatorial practices, based on work with contemporary art, affect, emotion, and creating transformative energies.
Elina Suoyrjö has curated exhibitions and programs at SIC, Helsinki; La Galerie, Contemporary Art Centre, Noisy-le-Sec / Paris; and Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
Fall Open Studios 2018
November 9–November 10, 2018
Jonathan Baldock and Essi Kausalainen, Only the Lonely, 2015, exhibition view at La Galerie, Contemporary Art Centre, Noisy-le-Sec / Paris. Photo by Cédrick Eymenier.
Nastja Säde Rönkkö and Julie Béna, Good Vibrations, 2017, exhibition view at SIC, Helsinki. Photo by Tuomas Linna.
Mirko Nikolic, Good Vibrations, 2017, exhibition view at SIC, Helsinki. Photo by Tuomas Linna.
Past Resident2018: Estonian Contemporary Art Development Center
Paul Kuimet
Paul Kuimet works with photographic installations and 16 mm films, the subject matter of which ranges from landscapes and architecture to objects and works of art mainly from the Modernist discourse. Kuimet’s photographs are often displayed as lightboxes in darkened spaces, which heightens the viewers’ relationships to the physical and pictorial space. His films that are constructed as continuous loops are displayed in relation to the existing exhibition space further emphasizing their sculptural qualities rather than a narrative drive.
Paul Kuimet has exhibited work at WNTRP, Berlin; BOZAR- Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels; and Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia (EKKM), Tallinn, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
Fall Open Studios 2018
November 9–November 10, 2018
Paul Kuimet, Golden Home, 2017, 16 mm film and rear projection, 4:26 min. loop.
Paul Kuimet, Untitled Transparencies, 2017, 35 mm slide projection, 30 slides.
Paul Kuimet, Exposure, 2016, black and white 16 mm film projection, 7:56 min loop.
Paul Kuimet, Grid Study, 2016, photographic installation, gridded partition wall, and four black and white transparencies in light boxes, 44.5 × 44.5 in. each.
Paul Kuimet, 2060, 2014, black and white 16 mm film projection on dual-sided screen, continuous loop.
Past Resident2018: Canada Council for the Arts
Yann Pocreau
Yann Pocreau’s research has been focused on the narrative contributions suggested by light when it is staged in specific places. In his most recent projects, he puts forward traces of light and it’s presence as a subject. Though he works mostly with photography, Pocreau has experimented with other media, such as installation, animation, and sculpture, as he developed a series of interventions and works around artificial light, its materiality and its essential contribution to the artist’s photographic thought.
Yann Pocreau has exhibited work at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montreal; Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains, Tourcoing, France; and Galerie de l’UQAM, Montreal, among others.
Yann Pocreau, Impermanence 1, 2017, digital proofs and photograms, 20 × 33 × 2 in. (50.8 × 83.82 × 5.08 cm).
Yann Pocreau, Answer to Painting 1, 2 and 3, 2017-18, digital proofs and photograms, 52 x 42 x 3 in. each.
Yann Pocreau, Archeology, 2017, bronze and steel, 111 × 92 × 110 in. (281.94 × 233.68 × 279.4 cm).
Yann Pocreau, The Light / The Time, 2016, 772 light bulbs found in a hospital and a controller system, dimensions variable.
Yann Pocreau, Catherdral, 2013, blue back paper, light system, and intervention, 152 × 552 in. (386.08 × 1402.08 cm).
