Installation

Installation view From ‘Black On White’ by Laura Lilja

January 14, 2011November 28, 2022

Photos and installation: Laura Lilja

Installation views from Laura Lilja’s exhibition ‘Black On White’ at
Titanik-galleria, Itäinen Rantakatu 8, Turku, Finland, 7.1. – 30.1.2011.

Text about Juvonen and Olsson, installation by Laura Lilja, 2010-11

Laura Lilja about her exhibition:

The starting points of the exhibition are obituaries of certain deceased Finnish artists, as poet Isa Asp, author and poet Eeva-Liisa Manner and author, illustrator and painter Tove Jansson. The obituaries have been published in Finnish newspapers during 19th-21th centuries. What and how they told about artists’ private life? What can be read behind the conventions or between the lines? Is it possibly to question the hetero-norm by studying the obituaries and repeating them slightly differently?

… Read the rest of her artist statement: Laura Lilja: Black On White