Henna Vainio: Opposite Knots

Casemore Gallery is pleased to present Opposite Knots , Henna Vainio’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition brings together new ceramic word stacks, woven forms, and sculptural wall constructions that transform language into fragile, interdependent structures. These forms fold, trap, and contradict themselves much as words and specific phrases do in everyday life. Vainio’s recent work centers on language as a physical and political material. Words such as win, no, anti-age, and tender change are stacked, repeated, and woven into dense sculptural knots in which meaning becomes unstable. As letters accumulate, they begin to slip away from their original messages, becoming objects in their own right. In these works, language no longer moves forward in a straight line but loops back on itself, creating systems where opposites are embedded within each other and where beginning and end collapse into the same space. With the inherent deception of language in mind, Vainio takes words and turns them into shapes which become indecipherable forms embodying the weight of their original meaning.