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Horse & Dog exhibition by Egle Oddo, Timo Tuhkanen, Aldo Oddo-Tuhkanen
Galleria Espoonsilta 1.10 - 18.10 2015 Children's stories are the most symbolic objects in our possession. They educate and nourish the imagination of the young in ways that are not possible through other means. Through types of animal fables humanity expresses the fantasy to get around the visual un-changeability of the body and its desire to mutate, to evolve, and to change, in both the secular and spiritual sense. What Daniel Hjort, amphitheaters, colourful drawings, the symbolic, iconography, repeated words, faith, objects, confessions, Krippen, public information, traffic offences, circles, cancer, lead-white, ilium, the manga Abara, red rectangles, canvas, frames, woods, the animals swan, fish, horse and dog all have in common is their relation to Fable. In Horse & Dog four animal characters - swan, fish, horse and dog - mirror the experience of the world. They introduce the audience to paths where the meshing of cultural signifiers is chosen intentionally to suggest diverse meanings to occupiers of different cultural spaces. Thus in Espoo, Finland it means one thing, and in Aleppo, Syria it will mean a different thing, and in Mexico City it will mean another thing, and in Hong Kong it will mean yet another thing. This relation to internationalism and the ”third culture” of nomadism is sprinkled from circumstance inside the work. Rather then being the subject of the work itself, the artist "are" this. But what about the children? The artists have chosen to work as a family in order to contest the traditional western notions of labor, and to highlight the very substances by which whiteness, cisgender, racism and children's rights appear constructed through the stories adults invent. Those stories are instrumental in shifting power and autonomy away from children who would otherwise define themselves in a cultural space. But for a child, changing into an animal is not far from changing into an adult, and the world of adults is manifest danger. Here played by the role of the car and its anonymous face: the license plate. An asymmetric possessive sign that becomes the access point to a material status their physical bodies cannot have, and the contact point at which any life can be destroyed. With this the artists bring forward a faith in the ability of children to participate actively in their environment without resorting to patronizing novelty. A feature in family-labor-social relations that has vanished in the west through labor movements, industrialization and the disintegration of the family, but a feature that is rapidly returning through immaterial affective labor and social media monetizing. Installation view:
Öljynporauslautta (offshore oil rig) Materials: coloured wood blocks, metal pincets, puzzle Disney Nemo, baby sized baleros. Dimensions: cm 80 x 80 x 75 
Fossils Materials: polyurethane circular trays, four spruce cones, roller curtains with pearl-like hand riser, cardboard cylinder with screws, superball with horse figurine, coloured pencils, facebook profiles printed on paper. Dimensions: cm 220 x 175 x 70 
Moab 26, the Moravec dog Materials: pigment and charcoal on cotton canvas. Dimension: cm 140 x 160 
Love Trap Materials: wooden frame, coloured canvas, rope, silver enamel. Dimensions: cm 100 x 165 
Swan's Room Materials: metal hanger rail, Scalloping Roman roller curtain, Disney Cars plastic ball, books: Joshua Cody 'sic A Memoir', Timo Tuhkanen 'Methetico', Nassim Nicholas Talib 'Musta Joutsen', International Peace Bureau 'Children's Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament', Tashcen 'Krippen', Department of Information and public affairs 'Oil in Oman'. Dimensions: cm 160 x 305 x 230 
Corona Materials: lead white on primed linen canvas, convex mirror. Dimensions: cm 50 x 40 x 40 
Eclipse white Materials: lead white on primed linen canvas. Dimensions: cm 42 x 42 
Arabesque Materials: lead white on primed linen canvas. Dimensions: cm 41 x 41 
Thot vision Materials: lead white on primed linen canvas. Dimensions: cm 50 x 50 
Expropriation Rotondili Materials: metal frame, paper tape, water soluble ink, metal wire. Dimensions: cm 107 x 61 x 51 
Abara, the horse Materials: poppey oil and pencil on primed cotton canvas. Dimensions: cm 60 x 74 
Fon-ciccione Materials: opus, water paint, soil, plexyglass. Dimension: cm 120 x 140 
Pink ghost Materials: water paint, opus, natural pigments, permanent ink, paper tape, objects on photo paper. Dimension: cm 70 x 100 
New Hero Materials: permanent ink and acrylic on linen canvas. Dimensions: cm 78 x 144 
Cornicchi Materials: plastic pipe, natural rope. Dimensions: cm 220 x 35 x 240 
Ancestors Materials: round rusted metal table top, small coloured wood blocks. Dimensions: cm 100 x 70 x 25 
Milk & Pepper Materials: wooden dog bed, acrylic rope roll, Nutrilon standard infant formula, wooden chair, postate note. Dimensions: cm 130 x 60 x 123 
Pedestrian aka XVN-362 JJE-856 ILS-577 MLZ-722 CTG-157 ZVG-357 NFN-331 Materials: toy mirror, writing in pencil. Dimensions: cm 25 x 120 
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