Out of Office

Today was the last hot day in July (according to the weather forecast) and because our house has warmed up too much, we needed to figure out how to survive through the day. We invited ourselves to my parents-in-law, their house is wonderfully cool! Then we went to Sara Hildén Art Museum to see the summer exhibition called Out of Office. It was very good collection exhibition and the temperature of the museum was perfect! Before we drove Leevi to Hervanta we had ice cream in the Puisto. In the evening it got windier and temperature started to drop. Thank heavens!

In the picture Emma and Leevi are watching Berta Fischer's installation Hadow (made of acrylic glass).


Out of Office, the Summer Exhibition of this, the 40th anniversary of the founding of the Sara Hildén Art Museum, has been compiled from works in the Sara Hildén Foundation’s collection. 

The themes of the exhibition are getting away from the humdrum, public space and the role of the individual in society. The works give expression to leisure and privacy and the different significances of identity and the ego. The shaping of reality and the landscape and the importance of communality are repeatedly expressed in them. Combining the opportunities created by the different techniques of visual art to comment on the real world, they suggest how things could be. The exhibition also takes the viewer from the private to the communal sphere, out of the home on a journey, to celebrations, to the city and into nature — somewhere else.

Getting away from the daily routine can be associated with any moment in life. The concept of leisure is also strongly connected with the situation in society: it reflects social changes and sometimes even anticipates them. Leisure can thus be seen as a broader, personally experienced concept, not just as the antithesis of work or enforced free time. What is essential is that when we move out of the daily routine and into a private space, we can ourselves choose how we want to be.

The making of choices and balancing one’s own interests and the expectations of society can be challenging for the individual. Finding answers to the questions of who I am or would like to be, or what my expectations of life are is not simple. The environment, the imagery of our age and our common social reality shape our identity and reinforce our conceptions of life and being.

http:/https://www.tampere.fi/sarahilden/en/index/tiedotteet/2019/05/RTcsfdn11.html


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