Gaa Gallery

Eetu Sihvonen

Info: Gaa is pleased to present Lacrimal Lake House, Eetu Sihvonen’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. Lacrimal Lake House is an exploration into themes and motifs that are recognizable from Eetu Sihvonen’s previous work. Their work, as a whole, is an exercise in world-building, or perhaps more pertinently, exploration. As such, it opens a vast landscape, a topography if you will, of somewhere that is at once familiar and estranging. Certain topoi, such as the egg and the burnt ornamental furniture, are recurrent in Sihvonen’s work, yet the world that opens up is of a distant nature, as if covered by a soft veil that makes it difficult, if not impossible, to locate yourself in it, hence the estrangement. (…)

Sarah Trigg

Info: Gaa is pleased to present Collected Signals, Sarah Trigg’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. Trigg’s new works, on paper are a departure from her large-scale, static canvas paintings, with dynamic works that feature loose, gestural brushstrokes. The exhibition focuses on a grid of framed works on paper taken from Trigg’s most recent, series, in which Trigg continues her exploration of the subconscious reaching consciousness. Trigg is primarily a sculptor and painter, while her practice also extends into investigations of other artists’ studio practices through writing and photography as in her book, STUDIO LIFE: Rituals, Collections, Tools and Observations on the Artistic Practice (Princeton Architectural Press). By way of dynamic and gestural mark-making, Trigg captures snapshots of matter suspended in a fast-moving formation. Undulating lines trace the movements of mutable bodily forms, while fleshy tones crawl across blush and teal backgrounds. Ultramarine works find rest with a drone-like meditation, an exhale. (…)