Riikka Puronen: Tiimalasi

The Tiimalasi exhibition examines how form emerges in time and how matter and the working process make the passage of time visible. Riikka Puronen reflects in her works on scale, perception, and the construction of form: how form, matter, and movement together create shape - like sand in an hourglass, slowly accumulating into a visible mark of time.

The mould is traditionally a tool in sculpture, intended to repeat form precisely while remaining invisible itself. Yet its hollow interior already takes on its own three-dimensional form before casting. In the Tiimalasi exhibition, this hidden form becomes the starting point for the works.

The exhibition's ceramic pieces are created using 3D-printed moulds. Clay records the structure of the mould and the impressions, stretches, and traces of movement that arise during the working process - the material's behaviour thus remains visible in the finished work. In the Clay Tablets series, the impressions pressed into the clay function as a kind of record of events and movements.

The exhibition also features small tin castings that repeat the relief forms from the Clay Tablets series in three dimensions. These small sculptures resemble amulets or portable objects - personal symbols, memories, and signs.

Forum Box, 29.5.-21.6.2026. Tue-Sun 12.00-17.00. Free entry.