"Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice"
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
curatorial statement
More often then not, Art is conceived as a location for truth. While truth can be a concept that adapts to changing times, it's companion justice is a deeper feeling that inter-expresses itself between living bodies. My curatorial work asks art to be a location for justice. This is a justice for all, including plant and animal societies as well as humans. I argue that before justice exists for all we have yet to see art, but that it exists as a proto-form which has only in fleeting moments been made in a way that approaches its capacity as art. This way I argue that it is the duty of cultural institutions to develop their roles as locations of social justice, which when achieved will result in art.
Timo is currently the director and chief curator of Myymälä2 gallery in Helsinki. He also runs the project A Listening Room, and curates the nomadic 13lock which annexes urban spaces that combine certain properties of public and private space. He has curated and written for artists Benji Boyadgian, Hami Bahadori, Mathew Bell, and Alvar Gullichsen, dealing with topics of occupation, protest, and plant intelligence and communication.
Timo is currently the director and chief curator of Myymälä2 gallery in Helsinki. He also runs the project A Listening Room, and curates the nomadic 13lock which annexes urban spaces that combine certain properties of public and private space. He has curated and written for artists Benji Boyadgian, Hami Bahadori, Mathew Bell, and Alvar Gullichsen, dealing with topics of occupation, protest, and plant intelligence and communication.