Artist : Jarno Vesala
Title : Rest
Medium : life-size wall sculpture, multi-projection with minor facial movement
Dimensions : 220 cm diameter

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Jarno Vesala makes installations, which often consist of empathy inducing, human-like sculpture, sound and projected image. His immersive environments are perplexing, mysterious and unsettling. The work pays with the act of perception, memory and illusion. Recurrent themes are often relate to isolation, loneliness, exclusion and loss which are made manifest and palpable through his rendering.

Jarno Vesala is a Finnish artist born in Rauma in 1977. He currently lives and works in Nokia, Finland. Vesala graduated from Tampere University of Applied Sciences’ in 2004. He first exhibited in Tampere in 2003. Vesala’s has featured in Mänttä’s art festival, Kluuvin galleria, Pirkanmaa triennial, Helsinki Art Museum and Forum Box and was selected as the Finnish Young Artist of the Year in 2013. In 2014, Vesala won the Turku Biennale Prize. In addition Vesala has featured in numerous exhibitions internationally including ‘Out of Our Heads’ curated by James Putnam and Vassiliki Tzanakou, the Nordic Delights festival in Soho, London and two solo exhibitions at Anima-Mundi.