Alumna Kirsten Kleie
https://alajarvi.fi/aalto/nayttelyt-ja-tapahtumat
Im Rahmen der Alvar Aalto-Woche: https://alajarvi.fi/aalto
"searching for aino"
An intuitive and playful search for traces in relation to Aino Aalto
Aino Aalto * 25.1.1894 in Helsinki + 13.1.1949 Helsinki Finnish architect, designer, woman, mother, boss, friend, lover, role model
An Art project by Kirsten Kleie
From 30.8 to 27.9.2024, 30.8. Villa Väinölä presents Kirsten Kleie's photographic exhibition „searching for aino“ which was held at the Nelimarkka Museum's artist residency in 2023. The exhibition aims to bring a new perspective on Alvar Aalto's life, to highlight the woman, Aino Aalto, from the shadow of the great man.
In her works, the artist has created analog double exposures on b/w film. The first exposure consists from the private photographs of Aino Aalto and her surroundings from the Aalto family album. The second exposure took place in 2023 at locations in Finland, where Aino worked and where traces of life are still visible. And there the films were then exposed again frame by frame. The work merged yesterday and today on the light-sensitive layer.
2024 will also mark the 100th anniversary of Aino Aalto's birth