Mixed media. Variable dimensions.
Solo show, EMMA Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo, Finland.

The White Exhibition analyses the various meanings associated with the colour white. For instance, a white flag is traditionally the sign of truce, ceasefire, or a request for negotiation. A blank slate in turn symbolizes a fresh start, or liberation from the burdens of the past.
The title also alludes to the white race and the power structures embedded in the fabric of contemporary society. In the context of the art world, the White Cube refers to the modernist notion of a neutral, white-walled gallery space. The White Cube has become a standard context in which art is presented, albeit that white, as we now realize, is no more “neutral” than any other color.
At the heart of the exhibition is a durational performance going on throughout the three months of the exhibition. The performance is built up around varying ambiences, around conflicting and changing feelings toward the white scenery in which the bodies of the two young performers are trapped. The more than 300 hours of performance to be conducted during the exhibition constitute an act of healing, a symbolic cleansing to make room for something new to emerge. 
The exhibition includes two works titled Hope Against Hope – to hope for something against all odds: an embroidered textile work hanging near the entrance of the exhibition and a series of broadsheet artworks published in the local Länsiväylä newspaper.
The five newspaper artworks will be delivered directly to the homes of the citizens of Espoo during the exhibition. It is a gesture of invitation, to engage the community to come see the show and participate in the conversation.
The newspaper artworks add words and language to the otherwise word-less exhibition. The pages take the form of riddles, rebuses, crosswords, or Scrabble boards. The sheets suggest that everything is interconnected, that the discussion is not a simple one, but a whole complex of voices, situations, cultural habits, and feelings in the overall system, that we are all part of, whether we like it or not.

Performers: Jose Lumbreras Teijeiro, Johan Högsten, Wilhelmina Ojanen, Pinja Pieski, Selma Reynisdóttir.
Music and composition: Anders Juhl Nielsen.
Sound design: Pelle Skovmand.

Photo: Ari Karttunen / EMMA.