{"id":3844,"date":"2025-06-25T09:52:31","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T06:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tamperemaja.ee\/kultuuriuritused\/?p=3844"},"modified":"2025-07-05T11:07:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T08:07:22","slug":"domestic-bliss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamperemaja.ee\/kultuuriuritused\/en\/domestic-bliss\/","title":{"rendered":"Domestic Bliss"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\n
\n

Paintings by Katri Sipil\u00e4inen at the Tampere House Gallery, 3\u201327 July 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exhibition by Katri Sipil\u00e4inen, originally from Savonlinna, consists of watercolor paintings. The theme of the exhibition explores the contrast between light domestic happiness and the world\u2019s troubling state. The exhibition opens on Thursday, July 3, and will be on display until July 27.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDuring the painting process, I reflected on the lightness of homey happiness and, on the other hand, the heavy concern about the loss of biodiversity, climate change, and the lack of peace work. The paintings themselves, however, are left open to interpretation\u201d the artist says.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

The roots of the exhibition can be found in the book All About Love<\/em> by American feminist and cultural critic bell hooks. \u201cHome peace is especially beneficial for those living alone who are just learning to love themselves,\u201d she writes. In this book, bell hooks explores the concept of love, expanding its meaning to include care, commitment, and a sense of responsibility, and presents it as a force for social change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While painting, lightness appears as a calming, meditative gaze before naming. \u201cIn the newer works of the exhibition, my gaze observes the home and its inhabitants, at times reducing itself to the abstraction of color. Sensory lightness is simultaneously both powerful and worn-out, even clich\u00e9d\u2014like the familiar moon shining in the sky, about which thousands of poems have been written without it ever losing its power,\u201d says Sipil\u00e4inen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Katri Sipil\u00e4inen (b. 1979) has held solo exhibitions and participated in group shows since 2001. She has explored various fields of visual art, creating not only paintings but also comics, illustrations, animations, tattoos, and prints\u2014partly because she has only recently become aware of the limits of time. She plays experimental guitar music in the band Olimpia Splendid. Sipil\u00e4inen holds a Master\u2019s degree in Fine Arts. The exhibition was selected by the Tampere Artists\u2019 Association.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n
\n
\n
\n<\/span>