Once upon a time I saw the shame

Once upon a time I saw the shame – the title of Hanne Tyrmi’s exhibition sounds like the beginning of a dark fairy tale. An expectation of magical enchantment is immediately turned into a distorted image – a gloomy upside-down world.

The sculptures inhabiting the exhibition appear simultaneously familiar and alien, objects with a ghostly presence that seem frozen in time. The lead that runs through Tyrmi’s work is poignant; it settles like a numb film over all things. In the exhibition, lead plays a central role; it folds and bends, it encapsulates and envelops, but what is enclosed appears as cracks and traces on the surface. The shame seeps through.

Text: Ida Kjerulf

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