LAURA KÄRKI, Berlin-Helsinki

Opening night: 7:30 pm / 1st December 2017 Soft Within presents: "Leftovers", an upcoming art exhibition featuring international and Berlin-based artists whose work correspond to the dialogue between the notions of image, self –worth and inner growth. How can the dissemination of memories create illusions and perfect lies?  A conversation between illusion and reality and how expectations can define our identity.  “Leftovers” encourages the interaction between viewer and objec t, leading to an exchange of collected memories and personal experiences. https://www.facebook.com/PbergKunstKollektiv/ https://www.softwithin.org/ https://www.instagram.com/soft.within/

How could those strong, impossible, memories could be wiped completely out of one's mind? How pictures that you try to avoid always pop back in? How words, that you try to avoid saying, come back out? Why breaking away is so hard, but clinging to something is so hard? Why cleaning was so important, but playing not so much?

Who I am? 1, Laura Kärki Größe: 32cm x 39cm x 10cm Materialien Textildruck, Stoffe, Spitzen, Perlen, Watte c/o Laura Kärki

My new works in 2017- 2018 deal with human mind through addictions and what some addiction really reveals. Everybody has secrets that they don't want to tell anyone, but in the end is there some big mental tragedy or wound behind the addiction that one is involuntarily or unconsciously covering? Would it still be easier if one could be brave enough to talk about it? In my new works, I bring out repetition and series, and this method has been one of the fundamental forces in my works long time already. In the works, I am thinking about the situation where repetition of an addiction does not transform to compulsive behavior, or it stops being addictive: what has happened in human psyche and physiology when that happens? Is the fear gone? Is the state permanent? Can it even be true? Does the  addiction  change target? c/o Laura Kärki, 2017 : Evening Beers c/o Laura Kärki, 2017 :  Evening Beers

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