Earth’s Dirts
15.10.2025
Nesting
15.10.2025
Anna Tahkola
Location → Toppilansaari beach
The piece “As time goes by” built on the beach of Toppilansaari is a three-part participative sculpture installation.
Time passes, sand flows, spreads and accumulates around the sculpture, depicting the past. Put sand into the hourglass and the sculpture transforms the sand of the entire beach into an image of Earth’s time. Sand in the sculpture, like an hourglass, materializes time.
The hourglass sculptures are designed to engage the viewers. With a small shovel attached to the art piece, people can add sand to the hourglass, which is open from above. The part of the sculpture that is placed on the ground can also be sat on.
The materials of the work are concrete, ceramics, steel and sand. The work will be donated to the Oulu Art Museum, the Oulu City Collection. The planned lifespan of the work is several years.
Image: Kati Leinonen
Accessibility
Accessibility for people with reduced mobility: The work is on the shore of Toppilansalmi. The path leading to the work is sand. The path is downhill. It is not possible to turn around with a wheelchair or stroller near the work due to the difficult terrain, but the work can also be viewed from further away. The nearest parking lot is located when continuing along Pitkämöljäntie, approximately 260 meters from the work. The nearest benches are located next to the work, at the campfire site.
Accessibility through the senses: The work can be experienced by sight and touch.
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Artist:
Anna Tahkola
Anna Tahkola (b. 1983 Kempele) is a visual artist living in Turku. She works multidisciplinary with drawing, painting, sculpture installations, performance art and writing. Physicality and affective thinking are at the center of Tahkola’s artistic work.
In her works, Tahkola gives material forms to the slow organic change processes that can be observed in nature. Tahkola is fascinated by layers of time and the themes of flow and formation. In Tahkola’s artworks and installations, different observations collide, mix and overlap into a fragmentary whole. With her art, Tahkola creates a place for presence and wonder and the bodily experience of art.
Tahkola graduated from Aalto University’s Master of Fine Arts program in 2015. Her latest projects include solo exhibitions at the Salo Art Museum, Galleria Mältinranta, Studio Mustanapa and Gallery Huudo 2025, Gallery Ars Libera 2024 and B-gallery in Turku in 2022. Her works have been exhibited in joint exhibitions at the Kuopio Art Museum 2025, at the University of Turku 2023, DOCK 11 theater in Berlin in 2023, Monitaidefestivaali Manifesti in 2022 and in the “duo” exhibition at kunsthalle Kohta in 2021.
