Jaakko Pallasvuo

Radical Angels

Exhibition

11/09/2020 –

– 04/10

04/10/2020

In Radical Angels, Jaakko Pallasvuo takes on the representation of angels in the history of ecclesiastical imagery. Departing from these divine ministries and angels, they intuitively explore how the footprint of ecclesiastical authority is still pressed onto the image of our hierarchies today. In a time when the balance between authority and expertise is proven to be increasingly unreliable, it is easy to be overcome by a flooding abandonment. Pallasvuo invites us to use playfulness as a means to address this chaos of being a lamb in search of a herd.

This cross-disciplinary project is centered around two collaborations. In a collaboration with artist Viktor Timofeev, Pallasvuo creates a 3D-environment that integrates the living world with Land Art manifestations of different angels. Pallasvuo has also written a libretto for a monologue opera composed by Stephen Webb and Miša Skalskis, sung by Rachel MacIntosh, which serves the function of an angelic choir in the exhibition.

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About Jaakko Pallasvuo: Jaakko Pallasvuo (b. 1987, Finland) is an artist. Pallasvuo makes videos, texts, performances and installations that explore the anxieties of being alive now, and the prospect of living in some possible future.

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