"Maija Fox’s emphatically material-based art occupies the zone where humans and nature meet. In her art we can see traces of agriculture and heavy industry, both of which are directly rooted in Fox’s own upbringing in the countryside. She incorporates different elements from this setting, including tools, machinery, and structures with which human beings at work interact and influence their environment.
Metals are a key, recurring material that Fox reworks using various techniques. She has developed her own poetic form language, in which she makes open-minded, creative use of the techniques and methods of the artisan, engineer, and artist. She combines various familiar mechanisms and structures, producing something that is evidently intended to elicit new functions and even to attain dreamlike states", curator Markus Åström writes.
See full text at proartibus.fi and read on the spot as well – come visit the show, on view until 10.5 ✨
Image: detail from Maija Fox's 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩, cast brass, cast aluminium, steel, aluminium, silver wire, brass wire, forged steel, stainless steel fixtures.
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