Jukka Hautamäki: Instruo
Instruo is a study of decontextualization of material.
Instruo (meaning educate or construct) is a study of decontextualization of material. The work fluctuates between two- and three-dimensional states and appears through seemingly self-replicating imagery, revealing also that which is left out of sight.
"In January 2014, Hautamäki presented his new installation Instruo at the Kuva/Tila gallery of the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki, Finland. Instruo consists of eight overhead projectors and the projections they cast on the walls of a whole room, filling it with light. On the projectors, Hautamäki has placed heaps of colourless transparent plastic used in packaging of goods. The projectors, standing in the middle of the exhibition space, then enlarge the heaps of plastic. Along with the light, a quiet, yet distinctive humming of the cooling fans fills the room. The projections bestow a definite form to the cheap, formless plastic, as the artist has transformed the waste material into precise images. But what are they images of? Instruo offers the viewer an imposing vision in which he or she becomes at once immersed. The surrounding sight immediately overflows the viewer’s sensory faculties."
- Martta Heikkilä, PhD, 2014.
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