Hetki
May 16 – June 17, 2018
Featuring artists Emma Helle, Eeva Peura, and Fanny Tavastila.
Hetki was the first group exhibition I curated in my home in Töölö, Helsinki.
The exhibition was enchanting, abundant, full of joy, stories, color, and love. Everything fell into place like things tend to do when you create something that comes from the heart. The idea behind Hetki was to take a commercial art exhibition out of the gallery and into the personal and warm atmosphere of a home. It was a celebration of collaboration and doing something different.
By exploring alternative ways of showcasing art, the exhibition played with notions around art and space, art and people, and how the environment affects our experience and mood. Seeking to capture those decisive moments when something comes together: ideas, turning points, and creations, Hetki is about breaking boundaries and exploring new territory to create space for people to come together and connect with art, themselves, and each other in a surprising yet familiar environment of a home.
The three artists are united by an open-minded attitude and intuitive approach to creating. The work is generous and expressive. The joy of creating and the beauty of materiality shines through in the work.
Hetki was about enjoying art as it is, something to appreciate, experience, and be immersed by. It is also about bringing people together in a warm and humane space saturated with art that is in dialogue with each other and with the environment.
With Hetki, I wanted to create an immediate and immersive experience. I wanted to showcase art and life intertwined, art alive and as part of life.
Looking Back
Looking back, I realise I was beginning to explore something meaningful: how hospitality, beauty, conversation, and belonging shape the way we experience art, and one another.
Marcy grew from that question.
So has everything I've created since.
The Exhibitions
Art, belonging, emotional landscapes, and the many ways art can bring people together.
Hetki
2018
An invitation to feel belonging through art.
Sensual Closeness
2019
Exploring presence through the senses
Ripples
2019
An inquiry around how experiences continue living within us.
Unraveling
2020
An exploration of transformation through letting go.
Reframing
2020
An invitation to see with new eyes by reconnecting with intuition, presence, and the landscape within.
A Playful Approach
2021
Examining playfulness as a path towards discovery, freedom, and new ways of seeing.
Reflections
2021
A reflection on: not everything meaningful needs to be interpreted before it can be felt.
Together
2022
An invitation to trust that meaningful creation grows through relationships, generosity, and shared ways of seeing.
Enigmatic
2022
An invitation to trust intuition not as certainty: as a way of listening before something has language.
Caldera
2022
The inexplicable, cloud-like force of creation .
Bridges
2023
What if the things we create are creating us in return?
What it Means To Be Human
2025
What if our greatest creations are the ones that remind us what it means to be human?