Object, variable dimensions.
©image: Juha Pekka Matias Laakkonen
Collection: Courtesy of the artist.
Another ‘travel piece’ where all the constituent parts (the hand-made leather case, its wooden handle, the felt and paper wrappings) are put on display, except the objects that have left their imprints on them when the author sat on the stuffed case as he journeyed to the exhibition. The title refers to the kabbalistic notion of reduction or presence-in-absence. (AK)
Add to your list>Detail of 'Tsimtsum' by Juha Pekka Matias Laakkonen, 2014
>Installation view of 'Tsimtsum' by Juha Pekka Matias Laakkonen, 2014
> JUHA PEKKA MATIAS LAAKKONEN.
> Exhibition: Don't You Know Who I Am? – Art After Identity Politics. M HKA, Antwerp, 13 June 2014 - 14 September 2014.