Silent protector of greenery
15.10.2025
As time goes by
15.10.2025
Sini Talonen
Location → Mustansalmenpuisto, Hietasaari
The work “Maan Maan” built by Sini Talonen in the ARToulu art area is a spatial and functional environmental artwork made of wood and plywood sheets, and built on location.
The large-scale work will be built in the park Mustansalmenpuisto, in the Hietasaari area. The work creates a space and a place where you can linger. Shapes built from plywood sheets merge into each other and form three mounds rising from the ground. You can go inside the highest dome. The work rests on the ground, merging with the environment over time. Its loose forms rise from the soil and take root in the environment, as the vegetation wraps around the rest of the structures. The artwork deals with change and invites us to look at itself and ourselves, as well as the space, the place and the environment.
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Artist:
Sini Talonen
Sini Talonen is a visual artist from Turku. In her art, Talonen often deals with the experiences of human participation in the world and considers the human body in space, exposed to the unconscious effects of it. Talonen thinks that bodily experience is primary in the processes of understanding things. Talonen mainly makes sculptural and spatial art in which she combines several materials and techniques. The works are often site-specific and participatory. Their background is the interest in spatiality, architecture and different environments.
Talonen graduated with a master’s degree in textile art in 2008 and a visual artist degree in 2018. She has held several solo exhibitions and participated in group exhibitions. Lately she has been studying clay as a building material and construction drawing.
