From left Hertta Kiiski, Katrín Elvarsdóttir, Mari Krappala, Lilja Birgisdóttir, Marko Mäetamm (on Screen)
Solar Eclipse Shadow ( 2016 )
The exhibition is curated by Mari Krappala
"Cyclone is an area of closed, circular fluid motion rotating in the same direction as the Earth, characterized by inward spiraling winds. Cyclone 3. is a travelling exhibition which leads us to the threshold of circular motions that follow the rotational direction of the earth.
What happens, if we start to think, that human beings are not inherently superior to other living things, in a way that encompasses all species; human, seeds, plants, animals and bacteria are part of a system of interdependence. Cyclone 3. is an interdisciplinary process of exploring this repositioning.
French philosopher Michael Serres calls us to listen what is said both by living beings and the sustainability of our planet as a whole, to look for ways to let the planet speak. Will it help us make sense of our flexible and multiple identities, which are / could be fluid and changeable?
Cyclone 3. is responsive to our changing understanding of life with differences and our world with diversity, facing bio-technologies, climate change, peregrination… Are we able to locate ourselves to be partners of all living beings and all things on the planet with ongoing environmental and social transformations?
The eye of Cyclone is surrounded by a dense ring of cloud known as the eye wall. This marks the most dangerous part of the cyclone having the strongest winds and heaviest rainfall. While exploring different strands of humannature thoughts, there is an interest to provide a voice for marginal communities, organic and non-organic parallers. In response to ‘shared planetary threats’ we might start to find ways to enter to the new kind of civilization with different forms and laws.
What could they be?"
—Mari Krappala
Cyclone 3, installation by Lilja Birgisdottir in Gallery Titanik
After the Solar Eclipse (2016)
