Riikka Puronen: Tiimalasi

The Tiimalasi exhibition examines how form emerges in time and how material 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, material, and movement together create shape - like sand in an hourglass, slowly accumulating into a visible mark of time.

The mould has traditionally been a tool in sculpture, intended to reproduce form precisely and ultimately remain invisible itself. Yet its hollow interior already takes on its own three-dimensional shape before casting.

In the Tiimalasi exhibition, this hidden form within the mould becomes the starting point for the works. In the Clay Plates series, impressions pressed into clay function as a kind of record of events and movements.

The exhibition's ceramic works are created using 3D-printed moulds. The material's behaviour remains visible in the finished work: clay records the mould's structure as well as impressions, stretches, and traces of movement that arise during the working process.

The exhibition also features small tin castings that repeat the forms of the reliefs from the Clay Plates 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