Antti Jussila: Hellät nappulat

Antti Jussila's Hellät nappulat is a kind of home. Its order arises from small shifts, repetition, and things that have temporarily found their place. The home holds together through maintenance: surfaces are wiped, objects are moved, food is prepared, and its leftovers are cleared away. Something is continuously accumulating back. Alongside Jussila's work run Gertrude Stein's Herkät napit (1914) and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Keltainen seinäpaperi (1892), in which everyday objects, food, rooms, and their surfaces do not settle for remaining mere background to events. In Jussila's small-scale object assemblages, recurring patterns and overlapping window frames interweave with plaster, textiles, and everyday materials. Petroleum jelly, glitter, and food residue have clung to smooth picture surfaces; elsewhere small objects and materials are embedded in plaster, and clean textile meets the soiled. Antti Jussila (b. 1979) is an artist working in Helsinki. He works with sculpture, moving image, sound, and performance, both independently and collectively. In his works, visuality, materiality, and language intertwine and meanings layer. His practice recurrently examines systems and the interdependencies between them, as well as speculative fiction, the grey areas of consciousness, and aesthetic dead ends.