What are the historical museums for? Places to store old things? Yes, of course. But in the hands of an artist they become experiences to really touch your mind and heart.
That happens in Lahti where Maaria Wirkkala was invited to create an exhibition with the collections of city´s Historical Museum.
The given theme was death, and what happened?
The miracle that happens when the artist touches the material: there is no more an odd selection of objects but a journey to our innerness.
The silent room of a dead child with tiny shoes and angel wallpaper drawn by the artist herself when she was four years old, Heteka hospital beds, the video of the old hearse from the 1910s going round and round in the grey sky, the salty-sweet taste of funerary candy, the loneliness of seeing the end of one´s life to be near - this exhibition is not an exhibition but a work of art.
Jokaisella on oma aikansa (There is a time for us all) in Lahti Historical Museum, Lahdenkatu 4, is open until 3.4.2011 Mo-Fri 10-17, Sat-Sun 11-17.
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