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Golden Marks, 2014
Mixed media installation: 24 golden hand-made name rings Gold museum specimens (on loan from Finnish Museum of Natural History / Mineral Cabinet) Pure gold (issued by UBS) 18K gold jewellery (melted and stumped by a goldsmith) Gold plated chain Drill core stones from Laiva, Finland (geological samples of Nordic Mines Oy) 24K Gold leaf Synchronize-Diptych video projections / Computer animation by Gabriel de la Cruz Diptych photograph: Inkjet print, frame, Lynn and Lynn (both b. 10th May, 1976)
Shown at Taidehalli Studio with Mirrored Moment XIII, 2014
Special Acknowledgements:
FOOLS GOLD
Glimmer distracts the gaze as it scans across a plane of marks, weaving connections between minute geometrical forms and tracing invisible forces that guide the scattered lines. The marks appear to have no end or beginning, no centre to flee from or retract to. Yet the glow pauses the movement for a moment. It shines out of the page, not as a dot around which to organize the constellation of marks, but more as a point of contact. Not all that glitters, etc… Yet how to find true gold? Drilling deeper and deeper into the rock, or closer and closer into pixels of colour? Is it in the mineral crystals, in the ring, or in the melted lump? Is it something untouched, discovered as a hidden treasure, something designed, a prized possession, or pure exchangeable value? So many carats, so many names. Value can no longer be simply located either in the organic matter or the symbol of eternity. Once the tie between solid measurable stock of gold and monetary currency has been severed, value has become virtual, a matter of speculation. Hopes and fears are floating, in between materiality and meaning. Name in gold makes tangible a desire for recognition, like a stamp of approval and a promise of accessibility. Worn over the uncertainty of origin and direction, aiming at fixed form and function while fading into yet another shimmering abstraction. The so-called fools gold may be a matter of misrecognition, a momentary capture by a twinkle that cheats the eye. But what is gold, true and valuable may well be down to ever-shifting relations between the eye and the glint of gold leaf, the hand and the jewelry, the many minerals within the density of the rock. All in ceaseless formation. Taru Elfving
> Play video (installation) 3:02 min. > Play video (diptych animation) 3:45 min.
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