Suite is a joint exhibition combining sculpture and photography by Tuomas Lehtomaa and Tuure Leppänen, whose title derives from a word denoting a series, a retinue or a continuum. The artists' work is sustained by an interest in matter: how substances, spaces and objects store and structure reality, and how they act as points of contact between private and shared worlds.
The photography gallery Hippolyte has previously operated under different names as cinemas, and traces of its past are still visible in the space. Tuure Leppänen has made reinterpretations of these details for his photographic works, using drawing and 3D modelling, reproducing them in other materials. Objects shaped from materials such as tin, beeswax, plaster, sugar and milk carry both historical references and meanings and associations linked to the materials. Tuomas Lehtomaa, for his part, has brought into the exhibition space moulded materials, parts and objects that connect to places outside the gallery and to circulations.
For the artists of the exhibition, sculpture is a way of relating oneself to the world.