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Kalpa | Bedrock | Fibroin, 2020
Kalpa | Kallioperä | Fibroin, 2020

Rose gold on cast silver, aluminum, drill core sample from Onkalo* (Olkiluoto), silk fabric

Size of silk fabric: approx. 280cm x 380cm
Diameter of bedrock cores: 5 to 19.5cm ⌀

Turku Technology Properties (Turun Teknologiakiinteistöt) Art Collection
Located in EduCity, a campus of Turku University of Applied Sciences, Turku

Along the technological and scientific aspects, this work proposes that our well-being is afforded with innumerable and incomprehensible bodies, both organic and inorganic.
Philosophers, engineers, workers, a bishop, a monstrous goddess, totems, nymphs, silk moths and their larvae, ores and the earth – their bodies and human actions associated with the work’s key materials are tied to the context of this work.
While referring to particular stories (e.g. Mothra and Kalpa) and materials and fitting into this site, the work invites open narrativity and awaits a new temporality.

* Onkalo is located on the south-western coast of Finland. It is a construction site for the world first geological repository for the final disposal of spent nuclear fuel

Acknowledgements:
Al-Men Oy, Gabriel de la Cruz, Tero Hannonen / Au3 Goldsmiths, Pekka Heinonen / Saloteam Oy, Ville Mäkikoskela, Posiva Oy, Kim & Maria Raiskinen / K. Raiskinen Oy, Annett Seidel / Plauener Seidenweberei GmbH, Lauri Vainio