Milla Aska: Swirls

Milla Aska’s Swirls is an exhibition of whirls, dizzy sensations and spinning gazes. <p>Milla Aska’s Swirls is an exhibition of whirls, dizzy sensations and spinning gazes. In Swirls, paintings and crayon pencil drawings’ misty surfaces veil figures that emerge slowly from beneath the layers, looking for their shapes. In Aska’s observations, indescribable bodily feelings are connected to strokes that explore surfaces and to outlines that fade away quietly. </p><p>Picture a lying body, at night, in a sleepless moment/ whenthoughts turn into the most restless of streams/the whirlpool inside is wild and dusky ~ amaelstrom/ like the struggle to explain to anotherbeing, /on a bad day, what the problem is/ </p><p>or giddiness when one looks ahead and the blurry/sight curls onto the temples. Finally/leap to relief, dash to freedom! Movement arrives from thefingertips/ stays in the light, twirled between the figures/is a sensation, hint or gift./ </p><p>The fading of the outlines begins the stroke’s infinitesimal time/bruise ~ atmosphere ~ mood </p><p>The crumbling plaster in the arches of the Convent of San Marco/can be felt through one’s eyes. Mist, haze; like a fabric; like a cloud;light, fluffy./ To lick the spiralling lollipop surface of marble./To faint; to whirl. To fade, to breathe./ </p><p>Feeling a smile? Becoming the sea? Hair in the wind?/Hiding, whispering, unending and unborn beings?Comfort looming through a blur? </p><p>Original text, including the poem: Juho HoikkaEnglish translation: Päivi Tikkanen</p><p>Milla Aska (b. 1993) is a visual artist based in Helsinki. Her works have been on display in the Titanik Gallery, Monitoimitila O and Kunsthalle Kohta, among others. In 2020, Aska graduated with a master’s degree from the University of the Arts Helsinki’s Academy of Fine Arts. Aska’s artistic practice is supported by the Finnish Cultural Foundation. </p><p>www.millaaska.com </p><p></p>

Location

Helsinki Art Museum HAM

Eteläinen Rautatiekatu 8

Helsinki

00100

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60.170155, 24.930195