What Void Whispered4—17 March 2024
Kalleria
Kaarlenkatu 10
Helsinki
What Void Whispered, the first solo exhibition by Minna Virkki (b. 1985), presents twelve works related to the theme of silent observation and drifting. Comprising paintings, printmaking and textile, the body of work focuses on the integration of intuition
into an interdisciplinary approach to abstract art.
While working, Virkki delves into the process of intuitive making - she paints and photographs spontaneously and gathers ideas from her environment using wandering as part of her artistic practice. The works often originate from an initially unrelated but memorable remark, which, taken out of its original context, is later transformed into something else.
In her artistic practice, Virkki seeks to move towards a more autonomous and undefined way of creating, and away from the idea of the artist taking control and producing.
It is not the function of the form, which is shapeless and in flux, to represent anything. In the exhibition, the forms of the works appear as they appeared on the printing plate or canvas, and the impressions they evoke, whether they are pleasing or irritating, are left to the viewer to judge.