Roles and burden of being a woman, girlfriend, daughter, sister, future mother, grandmother and ancestor breaking trough belly.

2023

240 x 120 cm

Woven garbage bags in the form of a rug.

The work series Lado Animal (2023) is the first work series artist created in Colombia. In the series the nature pushes through humanity, and the walls of the home begin to suffocate the artist.

Throughout her career, the artist has received ideas for her works in dreams. In the dreams that translated into the series Lado Animal, her nails got sharp, her eyes became darker and she could see in the darkness. Her hearing got sharper and she could breathe under the water. But it comes with a cost; walls begin to suffocate her, indoor air doesn’t fill her lungs and she begins to destroy all the furniture. Design, fashion and luxury loses it´s meaning, how could one stay if their blood says otherwise? Where can you go, when you´ll always be chained up by the human in you? Being in between has always been the destiny of the artist, as she never felt like belonging anywhere, to any mold.As a solution, the artist destroys her entire home. The only option then is to embrace both sides, to celebrate having more than one life to be lived. The blood in her body circulates faster everyday and she has no other option than to follow.

Series consists of 10 works.

2023

Media: Digital photomanipulation on paper
Process of Lado Animal was supported by Taike and Oskar Öflunds Stiftelsen

Floor is Lava is a massive series of independent installations  transforming both problematic trash into art and abstraction into understanding. Floor is Lava communicates climate change, mass extinction, and the burden of future uncertainty. It is the condensed form of all anxiety on the air. The work makes the abstract phenomenon visible, gives it a concrete form to stop at. Floor is Lava continues to grow as long as the destruction by humankind continues. The artwork is controversially sympathetic, weird, and beautiful. Like a creature from another world. In this case, the “other world” is our own, and the artwork forces us to witness its inevitable destruction or act on it.

Medium: Plastic waste from strawberry fields, thrash metal, and wood from wastelands.

Finnish Cultural Foundation has supported this series.
Floor is Lava won the Future Talent -prize in Vuoden Huiput Creative competition by Grafia in 2021.

2023 Proceso Art Galería, solo exhibition “Lado Animal”, Bogotá Colombia
2023 Tolima Museo del Arte, solo exhibition “Floor is Lava”, Colombia
2022 Puistokatu 4, The house of hope and science, group exhibition “14 huonetta”
2021 Mänttä Art Fair, invite exhibition “To Err is Human” curated by Anna Ruth, Finland
2021 Art video in collaboration with dancer Tiia Kasurinen and director Viivi Huuska. Still unpublished.
2021 Fotocentrum Raseborg, solo exhibition “Anthro-po-scene”, Finland
2019 In Situ Group exhibition, curated by Jukka Korkeila and Markus Karger, Germany
2018 Gallery Rankka, group exhibition “Pirstaloijat”, Helsinki

Floral Rivalry carries on Isola’s experience of nature as a ruler of all beings, even at a time when it has been cornered. I believe nature is reaching towards us, always finding a new way to flourish. Nature does not need us but we need nature.

Material for commission work for Marimekko is waste from construction site. Art piece was seen at Flagship-store of Marimekko in Esplanadi in 2021.

Special thanks to my assistant Elias Tuura.

This work was made as a volunteer work by the invitation of kurdiliitto to support the human rights fight in Iran. The work gives a frame, a space for the community in contact with the work. Hundreds of people in Finland stated their support for the fight for human rights in Iran and women’s rights everywhere in the world by donating their hair for Woman. Life. Freedom. artwork.

2022

Anthro-po-cene explores the inner relationship of the artist with nature and the relationship of nature with her. Human is the most violent species on earth. The violence towards nature, other species, and its own members are constant and devastating. Mirroring one’s own actions, thoughts and privileges is painful and lonely work and it would be easier to look away. The hardest thing is to see and keep looking.

2021 Fotocentrum Raseborg, solo exhibition Anthro-po-cene
2021 Kaisaniemi Botanical garden, Helsinki, group exhibition Music for Plants
2023 Eurocine festival in Colombia, Bogotá, Medellin, Barranquilla, Bucaramanga, Manizales and San Jose Del Guaviare

Media: Video (4min)
Music: Ville Verkkapuro & Landys Roimola
Process has been supported by Taike.

Deep in the pacific ocean there is wandering the world´s most lonely whale. It has a name ’52’ because of the frequency of it´s sound. The other species can´t hear its´ endless singing which tone is at a different frequency than the other whales tones. No one is answering for it nor has ever seen it. Still, the whale exists because the researchers have heard it already in the mid 80’s. It was found when US Navy build a device to detect underwater listening devices and heard odd signals. Whale 52´s sound is calling at 52 Hz and it doesn’t fit to blue whale´s sound which is 10-39 Hz or fin whale´s tone 20 Hz. Researchers think that the whale is a mixture of more than one species and that makes it one of a kind.

The loneliness of a whale is comparable to people. One of our greatest fears as human beings are loneliness or never being heard by anyone. Like humans, whales are also social creatures. Like humans, whales can also biologically feel love and anger and are able to be part of a social community. Scientists are now trying to find Whale 52 – maybe in the near future it will become friends with people.

Whale 52 was seen at Provinssi 2018. Its´ material is fabric waste and fishing line. Size of the installation 8m x 6m x 4m

Special thanks: Sara Urbanski, Niina Autio, Marika Pekkala, Sampsa Räsänen, Nelli Nurmi and Ankkis Tapio

 

 

This elephant sculpture weighs as much as the yearly amount of garbage produced by two Finns (1000kg). Hopefully the elephant won’t weigh as much next year.

Norsu travelled through the city of Seinäjoki at the midnight sun.

Seinäjoki 2016-2019

Special thanks: Jani Korkiamäki, Jaakko Salomäki, Sini Savela, Jesse Jaksola, Annika Haavisto, Kalle Valtanen and Janne Hautamäki

Around 100 million tonnes of plastic is produced each year, of which about 10 million tonnes ends in the sea. Plastic doesn’t break down like natural materials – it doesn’t go away, it just goes from being a floating bottle to tiny plastic particles that are easily eaten by marine species or simply spread even further afield.
Soon our seas are just plastic. DO YOU DEAR TO DIVE?

2016

Seinäjoki

Plastic trash donated by Lakeuden Ympäristöhuolto.