Straight into the heart

Hanneriina Moisseinen: Cloth Road, 2012. Cloth, lace, textile printing, 

embroidery thread, acrylic gems, wire. 

Photos Finnish National Gallery/Central Art Archives/Petri Virtanen.

Sometimes you see a work of art that hits you.

And it hits you hard.

If you can, go to Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma in Helsinki and see Liinatie (Cloth Road) by Hanneriina Moisseinen. It is a part of the exhibition Eyeballing! The new forms of comics, but there is nothing comic in it.

The black story about a disappearing father is told with 

cloth, paint and embroidery. It is pure poetry, where even 

the materials have a deeper meaning. The cloths used 

here are Karelian käspaikka towels which have been a 

symbolic road inbetween this world and the hereafter.

The exhibition Eyeballing! is open until 9th of September 2012.

Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Mannerheiminaukio 2, Helsinki.

www.kiasma.fi/kiasmainfo