Via Ruuska | Self care self cure & Lifeline, 2024
1.11.2024–30.11.2024
Free
During the Queer History Month Via Ruuska´s works Self care self cure and Lifeline will be on display on the artelaiset wall.
”The works express queer joy through self-discovery and ways and platforms for this expression. In Self care self cure a make-up brush kit serves as a protective case for my playful self-portrait. The red and black hearts, borrowing their colour from the anarchists, create the outermost protective buffer. In Lifeline, two glossy angels hover between the cover of my smartphone. They dream of a self-expression that transcends the boundaries of the web and the physical world. A force field glows in the dark around the protective shell.”
Via Ruuska is a visual artist working with sculpture and mixed media. Their work often explores the division between public and private, home and work, everyday life and leisure or gallery and city. Recently Ruuska has also tried to figure out the significance of their trans identity for their artistic work and in relation to the subjects that interest them, such as the city.
Details
Self care self cure
Oil on wood, inkjet print, plastic packaging, steel
30 x 21,5 cm, 2024
Lifeline
Wood, Plexiglass, inkjet print, photoluminescent film
21 x 15 cm, 2024
Photo: Via Ruuska
1.–30.11.2024
Location: Titanik
Itäinen Rantakatu 8
20700 Turku, Finland
Website: titanik.fi
Instagram: @titanikgalleria
Open:
Tue–Fri 12–18
Sat–Sun 12–16
Free entrance
Accessibility
Titanik is located at street level along Itäinen Rantakatu. In front of the gallery there is a sidewalk rising 9 centimetres from the street level, the nearest ramp is located at the Aurasilta junction, 70 metres from the gallery. The width of the outer door is 90/155 cm and the width of the inner door is 81/163 cm. The doors are not automated and the outer door is difficult to open. The entrance has a 6 cm high threshold.
The doorway to the rear of the gallery is 94 cm wide and the openings in the central partition are 160 cm and 150 cm wide. The doorway of the Titanik A.i.R Studio is 89 cm wide. The doorway to the gallery office space is 97 cm wide and the floor slopes upwards at the doorway. The gallery toilet is available on request and the doorway width is 91 cm. The toilet is relatively spacious. There is a support rod on the wall next to the toilet seat and the toilet has an alarm.
The lighting conditions in the gallery and the amount of free floor space vary from exhibition to exhibition. Titanik’s staff will provide assistance in moving around the gallery space if needed.
Safer Space
At Titanik everyone is accepted and respected equally without any presuppositions, and attention is paid to everyone’s needs. In the space no form of harassment or discrimination is tolerated.