Kirsi Jaakkola
Basic information
b. 1977, Karvia
Visual Artist (MA)
Residence: Kankaanpää
Contact information
Email: kirsi.jaakkola@gmail.com
Artist’s Statement
Daily and Simple
Grey. An ordinary day. Cooking, looking for things, reading the daily newspaper, laundry, news, hugs, cuddling and sleeping. At home. At rest. Ordinary and simple. In the meantime; work, friends, smiles, worries, and cry. Passion. Watching TV, disappointments, vacuum cleaning, and love confessions. What ever. Daily and grey. Simultaneously, all of it, worth of achieving.
I am fond of the low keys in grey, its humble thereness. Grey adjusts and comforts itself while painting it, without letting me go. Not easily taken. While invert and secretive, it carries the potential of all that is colourful. Grey provides the opposites with glory, while remaining sensitive in the context of changes and effects by any environment. The inexplicable keeps capturing, investing my energy in grey.
What is grey for me does not necessarily represent grey to any other person. To me, the contact with grey is true and consciously created by the contexts of the everyday. Both of them, the colour and the daily, possess what is valuable – for me – to work on by cherishing it. My intention is not to glorify what is mundane; the unbearable, the inescapable. The daily grey, like every day, is proper to each other, accordingly. To me, it is like painting, breathing, the necessity in order to keep myself in my senses.
Grey. An ordinary day. Cooking, looking for things, reading the daily newspaper, laundry, news, hugs, cuddling and sleeping. At home. At rest. Ordinary and simple. In the meantime; work, friends, smiles, worries, and cry. Passion. Watching TV, disappointments, vacuum cleaning, and love confessions. What ever. Daily and grey. Simultaneously, all of it, worth of achieving.
I am fond of the low keys in grey, its humble thereness. Grey adjusts and comforts itself while painting it, without letting me go. Not easily taken. While invert and secretive, it carries the potential of all that is colourful. Grey provides the opposites with glory, while remaining sensitive in the context of changes and effects by any environment. The inexplicable keeps capturing, investing my energy in grey.
What is grey for me does not necessarily represent grey to any other person. To me, the contact with grey is true and consciously created by the contexts of the everyday. Both of them, the colour and the daily, possess what is valuable – for me – to work on by cherishing it. My intention is not to glorify what is mundane; the unbearable, the inescapable. The daily grey, like every day, is proper to each other, accordingly. To me, it is like painting, breathing, the necessity in order to keep myself in my senses.
Current information
Exhibitions 2023:ON ALL FOURS – Expressing Babyhood
15.11.2022–22.10.2023
Hämeenlinna Art Museum, Hämeenlinna, Finland
Invitation Exhibition (Päivi Jokinen, Kirsi Jaakkola, Sari Moilala, Frida Moukulainen)
7.6.–29.7.2023
Kankaanpää gallery, Kankaanpää, Finland
Solo Exhibition
syyskuu 2023
Kankaanpää gallery, Kankaanpää, Finland
