Forssa Textile Week: Myths and Memories

Myths and Memories
Galleria Moletti
Wahreninkatu 12

OPEN 21.-24.8.
DAILY 10-17

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Ieva Krumina (LV) used mainly plastic waste to make the works for this exhibition, and the gilding was intended as a joke on their apparent value and worthlessness, using fake "gold" (bronze powder) to give apparent value and dignity to an otherwise completely useless material. If not for artist’s intervention, it would have found its place in the landfill a little earlier.

The digitally woven works are tapestries merging Kristina Austi's (LT) handwoven structures and imagery of 3D-printed forms and gobelins from King Sigismund II Augustus' collection and motifs from Lithuanian folk tales. Using AI, Austi blended these sources into surreal compositions, later woven on a digital jacquard loom. The process explores the intersection of tradition and technology, echoing her interest in myth, transformation, and layered textile histories.

Päivi Vaarula’s (FI) small textile series of woven wool sculptures “Suddenly it was summer” was inspired by happy childhood memories of Forssa. The works are full of summer light, flowers and gentle warmth.

Kati Lehtinen (FI) combines photography and embroidery in her works. The two young ladies from Urja in the photographs from the beginning of the 20th century appear well-off and belong to the upper classes of society. The works are like playing cards with two sides. The mood of one is tender and caring, and the other is harsh and controlling. The gentle gaze of the younger one is preserved in both images.

Maija Purgaile (LV) creates her works in different techniques. It seems important to her that a work of art provides a positive charge of energy. Through art should strive to stimulate a responsible attitude towards nature, a climate of human relations, focusing on eternal spiritual values, the spiritual heritage of the great personalities of humanity, the unique beauty and fragility of nature. Purgaile collects impressions of nature as a basis for expressing her ideas, combining them with elements of symbolism.

Ritva Jääskeläinen's (FI) works capture the momentary atmosphere of photographs. The starting point for the Souvenir -jacquard textile works are photographs taken during trips to Croatia and London, where she focuses on the small, interesting details of the destinations.

Picture: Ieva Krumina