Summer’s Lament is an installation combining Hanna Marno’s sculptures and Harri Sippola’s soundscapes in Taidehalli Häme.

Summer’s Lament is a combination of experimental and sufficiently matured ideas, as well as materials created in natural and unnatural processes. Merganser feathers eaten to shreds by moths, synthesizer melodies inspired by flocks of birds and a maple petrified by a small one.

The main image inspiration of the exhibition is a disused limestone quarry located in Otamo, Siikainen. The midday heat of the place, the brightness and the shimmering stones made an impression. The stones were cruelly sparkling.

Hanna Marno (b.1981, Helsinki) is a sculptor and environmental artist who lives and works in Siikain, Satakunta. During the last years of living in the village community, her diet has consisted of larch chips for breakfast and lunch. After a hard day, dinner is a bit more versatile: a dose of lime for the muscles, maple for the blood and malachite powder for better vision. At dinner, she enjoys porridge from rye and graphite, because she needs protection at night. Mauri, a dog lover, watches the portions from behind his treat bowl.

In her works, Marno examines the layers of the landscape and communities, power structures, their materiality and multilingualism, suggesting encounters between different environments. What is the glue that binds us together?

www.hannamarno.com
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Harri Sippola (b. 1978 Savitaipale) is a musician, sound artist and producer who lives and works in Siikainen, Satakunta. His works are characterized by aesthetics on the border between synthetic and organic. Sippola is known, among others, for the bands Magyar Posse, Kuusumun Profeetta and Mama Longhorn, as well as for the film Samurai Rauni Reposaarelainen, where he worked as a producer and one of the composers.

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The exhibition has been supported by Taiteen edistämiskeskus and Svenska kulturfonden.