Heli Vehkaperä: Last Chance

Galleria Huudon November exhibition Last Chance consists of paintings and textile works by Heli Vehkaperä from the last twenty or so years. "I left the keys on the table and on the wall a shelf full of books that I had loved the way books are loved, literally and holding them in my hand. The room commented on every movement of mine and I became more careful. I did not want the room to think about me. I did not understand the house, the order of its rooms, the locked cupboards and the pictures on the walls. Everything was once tested, at that point I laughed and she looked into my mouth. I laughed more and we moved on to another black spot. I did not want to remember, not in detail or in broad strokes. As the door closed, however, I was still inside. I moved soundlessly through every room, wiping from my hair everything that had layered. My hair began to weigh, soon it was a grey, coarse cloud and the passage between the rooms became history. " Heli Vehkaperä (from my diary 2015) Heli Vehkaperä (b. 1976 Raahe) graduated as a Master of Fine Arts from the Academy of Fine Arts and as a Master of Arts from the Department of Art Education at the University of Arts Helsinki, Aalto University. After graduating, she has worked with painting, paper and fabric collages.