Symbiosis (2022)

Public artwork

Coloured salt dough, medium format 120mm colour film, scanned and printed on archival pigment print, oak framed with museum glass, background with museum board, print mounted on aluminium board.
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Permanently installed in Puotila Primary School, Helsinki, with limited access, available to view for the users of the premises only.

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Symbiosis is a multi-part public artwork, commissioned by the City of Helsinki and curated by HAM Helsinki Art Museum for Puotila Primary School’s new building, completed in 2022. The series consists of seven photographs that are displayed around the school building.
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The moments captured in the photographs introduce a symbiosis of materials that creates endless worlds to enter, play in, and co-exist within. Ikram describes the hands as invoking connections and a feeling of community, of caring and being cared for. The work invites the viewer to reflect on togetherness and the concept of play and its rules, roles and agencies.
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‎The multi-part commission belongs to the City of Helsinki’s art collection, which is managed and curated by HAM Helsinki Art museum.
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Press Relese:
https://www.hamhelsinki.fi/en/stories/three-new-public-works-of-art-will-delight-daycare-and-school-children-in-helsinki/

Public Art Database:
https://www.hamhelsinki.fi/en/indoor-sculptures/symbiosis/
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Curated by:
HAM Helsinki Art Museum
Kristiina Lojokki & Aleksandra Kiskonen

Photo assistants:
Lina Jelanski & Severi Uusitalo

Photo editor:
Fredrik Enges

Selected hand models:
Landys Roimola, Severi Uusitalo and Bruno Zambrano

Thank you:
Minna Kurjenluoma

Photo:
Sonja Hyytiäinen
(Courtesy of HAM Helsinki Art Museum)