[November 6th 2002]
press release



Tiina Ketara Right Now at
The leisure club Mogadishni

Tiina Ketara (Finland - lives and works in Paris and Helsinki)
"Right now"
Opening Friday November 8th 19-23
November 8th - December 14th 2002

the leisure club MOGADISHNI
Artillerivej 40, building 9, stairs b, 4. sal
2300 Copenhagen S
phone: (+45) 32543535
fax: (+45) 32543545
mail@mogadishni.com
www.mogadishni.com

The leisure club MOGADISHNI is pleased to announce "Right now" by Tiina Ketara.

Ketara has been making bead works that hang from the ceiling and expand into the room for over two years now. Tiina Ketara has been working as a visual artist for ten years. Born in Ylivieska, Finland in 1965, at the turn of the 1990s, she studied simultaneously at art schools in Paris and Helsinki. One example of her glass pearl works is the glass bead piece "La Marque du Sang" ("Mark of Blood") shown in Paris last winter, which reflected the light, filtering it through its red beads. Its hovering, wave-shaped mass of beads was like a body, fleshy and flooded with living fluids.

Ketara`s journey to becoming an installation maker has thus been a long and diverse one, bringing together many of the forms of contemporary art. There has been the occasional reminder of her fondness for surrealism, too, for instance, in the autobiographical "Puny" drawings, whose androgynous young main character acted out everyday incidents in a highly aphoristic and laconic manner. Ketara also seemed to be using these straightforward crayon drawings to explore various forms of communication.

In the leisure club MOGADISHNI, among other things, Tiina Ketara will display "Stairs" which is a new pearl work made in 2002. "Stairs" consists of stairs made out of pearls floating in the air. "Stairs" will start in the first gallery room and continue "through the wall" to the next room.

In 2002 Tiina Ketara was awarded the prize of the Mänttä contemporary artweeks in Finland.

We welcome you in the gallery.

For more information and pictures check out www.mogadishni.com

The exhibition is generously supported by FRAME Finnish Fund for Art Exchange.