PROCESS (Prosessi): The Transitional Spaces of Turku City’s Culture, May 9–28, 2025, Amiraalistonkatu 8, Old Tram Depot.
The Process project was in May 2025 at the old tram depot in the Amiraalistonkatu warehouse in Turku. Process was part of the cultural transitional spaces initiative and was carried out in collaboration with the City of Turku’s Cultural Promotion department. The project allowed ten artists to work creatively throughout the process, and a gallery exhibition was built in the same space, culminating to a “finale” event at the end of the project. The artists involved in the project were Markku Haanpää, Selma Aurora Haro, Toni Hautamäki, Mari Kämäräinen with her partner Hannu Seppälä, Erkki Nampajärvi, Aino Ojala, Jarkko Rantanen, Sini Talonen, and Juha Welling. My main goal was to sew a tent canvas out of painting clothes that I use during my normal workdays at the studio to make a cloak to a tent I had in the attic. The materials I worked with were all recycled or in active use. During the process I started to call the tent a 'Shelter from the Storm' after a Bob Dylan -song. ...
