Ripples
November 20 – December 11, 2019
Featuring work by Jasmin Anoschkin, Inka Bell, Hanna Hyy, Matias Karsikas, Emma Luukkala, Jenni Rope, Kerttu Saali, Emma Sarpaniemi, Joel Slotte, and Aki Turunen.
Ripples grew from a desire to continue the conversation that had begun with the previous exhibitions.
It brought together artists I had already worked with alongside others whose work had long inspired me—artists whose pieces I could imagine living with every day.
At the time, I found myself returning to a question that felt deeply personal.
What does it mean to live from our own truth?
How do we create lives that reflect what genuinely matters to us, rather than the expectations, stories, and assumptions we have quietly inherited?
It was a question I was asking myself as much as anyone else.
The artists in Ripples each approached that question in their own way.
Different generations.
Different materials.
Different visual languages.
Yet all united by something I deeply admired:
A commitment to their own way of seeing.
Their work moved between empathy and revenge.
Playfulness and tenderness.
Structure and spontaneity.
Together they created a conversation about the complexity of being human.
The title came from a simple observation.
Nothing we create exists in isolation.
A work of art changes the way someone sees.
A conversation shifts a perspective.
One courageous decision inspires another.
Everything we make leaves traces.
Not only in the world around us...
but within one another.
Perhaps we are always creating ripple effects.
Whether we realise it or not.
The question is simply:
What kind of ripple do we hope to be part of?
The Artists
Jasmin Anoschkin
Inka Bell
Hanna Hyy
Matias Karsikas
Emma Luukkala
Jenni Rope
Kerttu Saali
Emma Sarpaniemi
Joel Slotte
Aki Turunen.
Looking Back
Of all the Marcy exhibitions, Ripples was one of the most transformative for me.
I came close to cancelling it.
For a while, I worried the curation felt too eclectic, too unexpected, too difficult to understand. I wondered whether the different artistic voices belonged together..
or whether only I could see the thread connecting them.
That doubt became the bridge I had to walk in order to trust myself more.
Ripples became the exhibition that taught me to trust my own way of seeing.
It helped me recognise that meaningful curation doesn't begin by following the norm; it begins by listening closely to what feels true.
Ripples was the exhibition where I stopped looking for permission.
The Exhibitions
An exploration of 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?