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nothingmuch: an open studio visit with Jaana Laakkonen

Please join TBG+S artists-in-residence Jaana Laakkonen for an open studio visit where she will present her essay written as part of her practice during the residency. Jaana's artistic practice is a continuous experimental process of studio work and writing in which different materials, feminist-posthumanist theory and everyday situations intertwine. After all, the artworks – and the associated texts – take shape on terms of the exhibition spaces and the exhibition situations.

Jaana Laakkonen is an artist currently living and working in Helsinki, Finland. Recent and forthcoming solo exhibitions include HAM Gallery, Helsinki Art Museum, Finland (forthcoming November 2023); The First Room Makes for Willows, K17 Space for Art and Ecology, Sipoo, Finland (2022); ~=2cm, deep=~, Oksasenkatu 11, Helsinki, Finland (2021); and ouoùouille, Treignac Projet, Treignac, France (2020). Recent group exhibitions include Breaking Water, Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, Ohio, US (2022). In 2021 her written work was published as a book called They Inhabit While Working by Archive Books, Berlin, Germany.

Image description: A section of a metal wire loop is fastened to a piece of beige fabric. The fabric is not flat and folds are visible in its surface. The wire loop is attached with pieces of the same fabric and stitched with black thread.