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Five Pieces
SARI LIIMATTA
HANNAH Gallery
Display at Hannah Gallery
When discovering Sari Liimatta’s pieces, one might think of Sid, the toy-tormenting kid from Toy Story, who cruelly dismantles and reassembles his plastic victims.
These animal-like figures, too, seem to embody the darker side of human nature, a reflection of our voracious consumerism that pierces, breaks down, decorates to excess… and then discards.
Artificial hybrids and remnants of both creative and destructive impulses, they appear like forgotten objects, somewhere between sculpture, jewellery, and anthropological trace.
Unspoken relics to the transformations of a saturated world, Sari Liimatta’s works, symbolically charged, hold up a mirror to our actions and to a deeper human nature that’s far from innocent.
Sari Liimatta. Pendant: The Veterans, 2024.
Unique piece. Price: 3600 €.
Born in 1977 in Lappeenranta, Finland, Sari Liimatta is a nature enthusiast, a quiet activist, and a visual chronicler of environmental distress. She graduated in Stonework and Jewellery Design from South Carelia Polytechnic, Finland, and studied for a year at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam.
Her practice merges sculpture, storytelling, and ornamentation to construct uncanny micro-worlds populated by hybrid creatures and discarded remnants. With a disarming mix of fiction and discomfort, her works give form to the paradoxes of contemporary life and consumption.
Sari Liimatta. Sculpture: Homeless, 2024.
Unique piece.Price: 2800 €.
Public Collections: The Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki, Finland. The Wroclaw National Museum, Wroclaw, Poland. The Finnish Glass Museum, Riihimäki, Finland. CODA Museum, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands. National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia. Lappeenranta Art Museum, Lappeenranta, Finland. Municipality of Katrineholm, Sweden. Berner Design Stiftung, Bern, Switzerland. Fine Arts Collection of the City of Bienne, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland. Collection of Finnish Jewellery Art Association, Finland. The Finnish Institute in Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Awards: Arts & Crafts Design Award, 2015, curated by Hannah Ullmann, nomination, Istria, Croatia. Prize for young artist, 2005, Arts Council of Southeast Finland. TheInternational Contest for Jewellery With Amber Design, 2001, second prize, Gdansk, Poland.
Solo exhibitions: "Challenging entities, solo presentation, Hannah Gallery, Barcelona, Spain, 2021. "Close & Far", ATTA Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand, 2016. "New work: Sari Liimatta", preview, Verzameld Werk, Gent, Belgium, 2010. "HIGH/LOW", Friends of Carlotta Galerie für Schmuck und Objekte, Zürich, Switzerland, 2009. "OPEN/CLOSED", Galleria Rantapaja, Lappeenranta, Finland, 2008. "In the Front Room: Sari Liimatta", solo presentation, Galerie Rob Koudijs, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2008. "ON/OFF", Galleri Iron Inc., Copenhagen, Denmark. 2007
Sari Liimatta. Sculpture: Hope, 2024.
Unique piece. Price: 2800 €.
Sari Liimatta. Sculpture: Myriad, 2023.
Unique piece. Price: 3000 €.
Quan descobrim les peces de Sari Liimatta, pot venir-nos al cap en Sid, aquell nen pertorbador de Toy Story que desmuntava i reassemblava cruelment les seves víctimes de plàstic.
Aquestes figures d’aparença animal també semblen encarnar el costat més fosc de la naturalesa humana, un reflex del nostre consumisme ferotge que perfora, desmunta, sobrecarrega de decoració… i finalment rebutja.
Híbrids artificials i restes d’impulsos creatius i destructius alhora, s’aparenten a objectes oblidats, a mig camí entre escultura, joieria i rastre antropològic.
Relíquies mudes de les transformacions d’un món saturat, les obres de Sari Liimatta, carregades de simbolisme, ens reten un mirall: al que fem i al que som, a una naturalesa humana molt lluny de ser innocent.
Nascuda l’any 1977 a Lappeenranta, Finlàndia, Sari Liimatta és una amant de la natura, una activista silenciosa i una narradora visual del malestar ambiental. Es va graduar en Pedra i Disseny de Joieria a South Carelia Polytechnic, a Finlàndia, i va estudiar durant un any a la Gerrit Rietveld Academie d’Amsterdam.
La seva pràctica fusiona escultura, narració i ornamentació per construir micro-móns inquietants, habitats per criatures híbrides i restes rebutjades. Amb una barreja desarmant de ficció i incomoditat, les seves obres donen forma als paradoxes de la vida i el consum contemporanis.
Sari Liimatta. Sculpture: Backyard crimes, 2020.
Unique piece. Price: 3800 €.
SARI LIIMATTA
HANNAH Gallery
Display at Hannah Gallery
Mail: hannahgallery@klimt02.net
Tel: +34 933687235
Whatsapp: +34 615370748
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