Paper Notes and Pinecones (2024)

Solo exhibition by Laura Cemin

at HAM, Helsinki (FI) 17.05 - 30.06 2024

Sound installation (4 channels) by Jenny Berger Myhre (23'34")

Curator: Milja Liimatainen

In an attempt to rediscover the lost gesticulation of her native language (Italian), Cemin looks at the process of adaptation that bodies undergo when moving to a different cultural and linguistic landscape. Paper notes and pineconesis a collective archive of movements, an instruction manual, a hybrid grammar of the foreign body.

As part of the exhibition, three live performances took place in the gallery on June 8, 9, and 12, 2024 in collaboration with Tashi Iwaoka, Daniela Pascual, Chen Nadler and Jenny Berger Myhre.

The sound installation was running during the performances, and later adapted to accompany the publication A Body with More Tongues is a Mythical Creature by Laura Cemin.

The exhibition was supported by Kone Foundation, Nordisk Kulturkontakt, Finnish Art Society, Italian Institute of Culture and Oriente Occidente.

In 2024, the exhibitions at HAM gallery are supported by the Finnish Heritage Agency.

Residency funded by Culture Moves Europe.

Video & photography credits: Roberta Segata