Together
March 17 – April 3, 2022
Featuring work by Elina Ahlstedt, Inkeri Heiskanen, Eeva Lietonen, Frans Nybacka, Christine Valtonen, and Xiao Zhiyu.
Every Marcy exhibition began with an intuitive feeling.
A sense that certain works, people, or ideas wanted to meet.
Together was no different.
The exhibition began with one artist.
I knew I wanted to show Eeva Lietonen's work again after our previous collaboration.
When I invited her to participate, I asked a question.
"Who would you love to exhibit alongside?"
That one question shaped the entire exhibition.
What began as a conversation gradually unfolded into a group of six artists whose work felt connected through something deeper than style.
An intuitive approach. Compassion. Rawness. Vulnerability. Support.
A shared dedication to their own practice and to the beauty of their chosen materials.
Looking back, I realise Together wasn't only about bringing artists into the same space.
It was about trusting collaboration itself.
Trusting that meaningful constellations emerge when we leave room for other people's intuition to shape the process.
Sometimes the most beautiful ideas belong to the space between us.
The Artists
Elina Ahlsted
Inkeri Heiskanen
Eeva Lietonen
Frans Nybacka
Christine Valtonen
Xiao Zhiyu
Looking Back
Reading these reflections today, I recognise something that has become increasingly important in my work.
Creation is rarely a solitary act.
Even when one person carries the original vision, the work becomes richer through dialogue, generosity, and shared imagination.
Collaboration is about trusting that other people can help us see what we could never have discovered alone.
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?