THEY made quite an impression when suspended above Charing Cross but now a public artwork consisting of 700 shirts can be seen up close indoors.
Kaarina Kaikkonen’s “Dancing Together: A Ballad”, which has opened at Capital House Gallery, provides what ArtHouse Jersey describe as a “new iteration” of the artist’s work.
It is accompanied by a soundtrack by composer, musician and sound designer Päivi Takala which features a historic recording released by the Finnish Literature Society of a wedding lament.
The combination of the human voice and the extended sound of stringed instruments provides what the composer hopes is a musical evocation of the sentiments of Ms Kaikkonen’s works – a sense of history and time, a sense of lived lives and personal memories.
Discussing her approach, Ms Kaikkonen said: “I want to use materials that have had a previous life. Then I change it and give it a new life, a new form of art. To make beauty from the ordinary.”
The Capital House exhibition, which runs until 1 December from 10.30am to 6pm daily except on Mondays, concludes ArtHouse Jersey’s first Butterfield Public Art Series.
