As we rove the summery landscape of Taattisten tila, we are part of a planetary movement that can be felt through the light and warmth of the Sun. Sensed throughout the climactic growing season, when the wildlife blooms, pollinates, grows, hatches, photosynthesizes, ripens, sours, wilts. A lifetime of human summers are needed just to realize that the ancient clay sediments from the basin of the Baltic Sea slowly rise beneath our feet.

Solar Noon is a group exhibition that settles over the landscape of Taattisten tila, entwining the human amidst Earth's interwoven rhythms: its durations and repetitions, the unfathomably large and extremely brief moments. These dazzlingly distinct proportions of a summer’s day affect and are felt in the body. The exhibition aims to play with the orientation of the human within the world’s time; flowing from the past that came long before us and flowering against the future that unfolds without us.

Solar Noon is curated by performing and visual arts curator Riikka Thitz. The exhibited artists represent makers of the contemporary art field who in their works observe questions of different temporalities and materialities through the methods of performing arts, music and visual arts.

Participating artists

Taru Happonen, Venla Helenius, Marianna Henriksson, Minjee Hwang Kim, Laura Jantunen, Liisa-Irmelen Liwata, Milka Luhtaniemi, Jaakko Pietiläinen, Elina Vainio

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Read the curatorial note and more about the artists and artworks here.

Media picks

Interviews with Solar Noon artists

Kaitlyn D. Hamilton / TUO TUO

Oivallinen ripustus, näyttelyn eheä dramaturginen kuljetus sekä teosten pohdiskeleva välisyys johdattivat tarkastelemaan kosmisia ja planetaarisia syklejä, hajaantumisia ja kasaumia sekä niiden mittakaavoja.

Tuija Huovinen / Mustekala, 6.1.2024

Perinteisten kesänäyttelyiden rinnalle kirmasi Solar Noon Taattisten tilalla Naantalissa.

Edit Media, 31.12.2023

Taattisten tilan historia ulottuu 1500-luvulle asti, nyt kävijää ovat vastassa kesänäyttelyn teokset ja Kille-vuohi – ajat limittyvät yhdeksän taiteilijan töissä

Heidi Horila / Turun Sanomat, 23.7.2023

Artworks

Jaakko Pietiläinen
What goes up and never comes down

Liisa-Irmelen Liwata
Maisemissa I
Maisemissa II

Venla Helenius and Milka Luhtaniemi
Hearing Moon

Laura Jantunen
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M A A (ilma)
H A J A a N T U N ee N a

Minjee Hwang Kim
Sequence

Elina Vainio
Amass

Taru Happonen
Mother of pearl
Honey
Algae lugn
Natural causes
Pinctada 1
Pinctada 2

Marianna Henriksson
Kimpoiluja

Harpsichordist Marianna Henriksson’s performance Kimpoiluja can be experienced as part of the exhibition 5.–6.8. The performance consists of two parts: ca. 45-minute recital, which can accommodate a larger audience, and ca. 10-minute encounters, in which 1-2 people can participate at a time.

More information about the performance here.

Solar Noon

Taattisten Tila, Naantali
19.7.–19.8.2023, open Wed-Sun 11–18

The exhibition is produced by i dolci ry in collaboration with Taattisten Tila and TUO TUO.

The exhibition is supported by Arts Promotion Centre Finland and Kone Foundation.

Exhibition photography: Aukusti Heinonen