RESILIENT HEART, HÄMEENLINNA ART MUSEUM, HÄMEENLINNA, FINLAND, 2023-2024
20.10.2023–21.4.2024, Engel building
In the latest works, Camilla Vuorenmaa has moved on to deal more directly with themes related to her own life and life history. In them, the artist’s own childhood experiences, memories, fears and joys are reflected and mixed with contemporary experience and everyday life. The subjects of the works are, for example, the heroines of action films important in youth, as well as themes related to family, parenting and motherhood.
Vuorenmaa is especially known for her large-scale paintings based on wood carving, which can be seen in this exhibition as well. The museum space is filled with Vuorenmaa’s paintings, installations, videoworks and uv-installion. Something totally new comes up as well. The artist has taken over a new form of media to add on the artist’s diverse production: a short movie.
Link to the museum’s site:
https://www.hameenlinnantaidemuseo.fi/nayttelyt-ja-tapahtumat/camilla-vuorenmaa/
Article of the exhibitioin in Yle (the Finnish Broadcasting Company) in Finnish
https://yle.fi/a/74-20056041
Still picture of the short film Mouth wide open,2023 Photo: Jussi Tiainen
General view of the wall painting Resilient heart Photo: Jussi Tiainen
General view of the wall painting Resilient heart Photo: Jussi Tiainen
General view of the wall painting Resilient heart Photo: Jussi Tiainen
General view, Photo: Jussi Tiainen
General view, Photo: Jussi Tiainen
Hide and seek, painting on plywood, h. 122 x w. 72 cm, 2022 Photo: Jussi Tiainen
How many years have I been floating out there, painting and carving on wood, h. 160x w. 155cm, 2022 Photo: Jussi Tiainen
Carrie&Leia, painting and carving on wood, h. 152 x w. 122 cm, 2021 Photo: Jussi Tiainen
General view, Photo: Jussi Tiainen
General view, Photo: Jussi Tiainen
Ripley in my dream, painting and carving on wood, h. 240 x w. 205 cm, 2022 Photo: Jussi Tiainen
Family in a dream, painting and carving on wood, h.150 cm x w. 120 cm, 2023 Photo: Jussi Tiainen
Future, always so clear to me, painting on canvas, h.140 cm and w.99 cm, 2023 Photo: Jussi Tiainen
General view, Photo: Jussi Tiainen
The dream is the same every night, installation, uv-painting on plexiglass, 24 parts, 100 cm x 100 cm /each, 2023 Photo: Jussi Tiainen
Vampyre, painting on canvas, h.180 x w.120 cm, 2023 Photo: Jussi Tiainen
General view, Photo: Jussi Tiainen
General view, Photo: Jussi Tiainen
General view, Photo: Jussi Tiainen
General view, Photo: Jussi Tiainen
General view, Photo: Jussi Tiainen
General view, Photo: Jussi Tiainen
General view, Photo: Jussi Tiainen
The unknown future rolls towards us,three parts, each part h.199 cm w.59,5 cm, together width 180 cm , 2023 Photo: Jussi Tiainen
What happens to her, painting on canvas, h.100cm and w.100cm, 2023 Photo: Jussi Tiainen
General view, Photo: Jussi Tiainen
Somehow I can still see, painting and carving on wood, h.110 cm w. 120 cm, 2023 Photo: Jussi Tiainen
We just cry when it hurts, painting on canvas, h. 160 cm w. 160 cm, 2023. Photo: Jussi Tiainen
Everything she said was true, painting on canvas, h. 140 cm w. 140 cm, 2023. Photo: Jussi Tiainen
It is like a giant strobe light burning right to my eyes, painting on canvas, h.150 cm and w. 150 cm Photo: Pasi Vähänen, Hämeenlinna Art Museum
No fate but the one we make, painting on canvas, h.160 cm w. 130 cm, 2023 Photo: Jussi Tiainen
General view, Photo: Jussi Tiainen
Sarah Connor, painting on plywood, h.123 cm w.69 cm, 2023 Photo: Jussi Tiainen
General view, Photo: Jussi Tiainen
It’s not a dream, it’s real, painting on wood, h.120 cm and w.119 cm, 2023 Photo: Jussi Tiainen
And they fly apart like leaves, painting on canvas, h. 100 cm w. 110 cm, 2023. Photo: Jussi Tiainen
General view, Photo: Jussi Tiainen