11/12/2024
ZOOM • « I Dream Here » by Kari Vehosalo
« I Dream Here » is an oil painting that depicts a surreal interior scene, with a woman lying on a bed, her face obscured by a black hole with brown edges, resembling a cigarette burn. Her right hand is raised, in a strange gesture, as if suspended between two realities. This hole, fluctuating between a black hole and a « cigarette burn, » refers to the visible defects in old films caused by reel changes.
The woman’s face, absorbed by the hole, becomes a metaphor for the disappearance of individuality, the subject, or the true nature of the scene. The painting generates a dreamlike atmosphere, where the overexposed light and the figure’s strange posture accentuate the unreal nature of the event. The blurring between sleep and wakefulness, reality and imagination, emphasizes a sense of liminality and the uncertainty of our time.
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Kari Vehosalo, « I Dream Here », 2023, Oil on canvas, 38 x 58 cm (15 x 22 3/4 in.)
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Photo 1: Photo: © Le Clézio Gallery
Photo 2 & 3: © Erno Enkenberg / Kari Vehosalo / Le Clézio Gallery
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« I Dream Here » is visible in the group exhibition « Being There », featuring , , & at Le Clézio Gallery until January 25, 2025.
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Kari Vehosalo Le Clézio Gallery
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