Mother's Flowers
Mältinranta Artcenter, Tampere
23.08.–16.09.2025
Mother's Flowers
Exhibition view/ Mältinranta Artcenter, 2025
Mother's Flowers
Exhibition view, Mältinranta Artcenter, 2025
Mother's Flowers
Exhibition view, Mältinranta Artcenter, 2025
Mother's Flowers
Exhibition view, Mältinranta Artcenter, 2025
Flight
Flight 2025
aluminium, steel
155 x 80 x 50 cm
Mother's Flowers
Mother’s Roses 2025
mixed media
left: 79 x 60 x 5,5 cm; right: 79 x 61,5 x 5,5 cm
Mother's Flowers
Exhibition view, Mältinranta Artcenter, 2025
Mother's Flowers
Exhibition view, Mältinranta Artcenter, 2025
Your Arm
Your Arm 2023
bronze
32 x 39 x 15 cm
Vanitas
Vanitas 2025
mixed media
129,5 x 181,5 x 7 cm
Meri
Meri 2022
CNC milled styrofoam, polyester resin, photographs / base: steel wire
80 x 34 x 34 cm
Lost
Lost 2025
mixed media
129 x 255 x 7 cm
Your Arm
Exhibition view, Mältinranta Artcenter, 2025
Mother's Flowers
Mältinranta Artcenter, Tampere
23.08.–16.09.2025
Exhibition text:
Some time after my father passed away, my mother gave me a DVD with some images, asking me to ‘store them somewhere.’ She has never been too good with computers. The pictures were selected from my father’s last laptop, which they had shared. As I opened the disc, I found a few images of my parents’ cats, and many pictures of flowers. No people, no holidays, no family gatherings – just roses, lilies and dianthuses. The images were taken with a basic digital camera, mostly using flash, in an accidental domestic surrounding. My mother has worked as a teacher the whole life, and her pupils give her flowers at the end of each schoolyear. When it’s hot, she hides her flowers in the cellar, to protect them from withering.
Berit Talpsepp-Jaanisoo’s exhibition Mother's Flowers builds up from the artist’s autobiographical and found material, forming a kind of archive or collection of sculptures and images. The exhibition looks at moments, objects and pictures that become significant over time, and the personal mythologies that are constructed around these.
The photographs, stored on hard drives, phones or family albums presume the selections made from the endless flow of subjects and situations. Could there be something universal about these selections? In what circumstances does an image become recognizable to the viewer, and how does its meaning change according to the viewer’s perspective or background? What are our expectations, as we open an unknown family album?
At the core of the Mother's Flowers exhibition are big-scale reliefs, a kind of tridimensional images that combine two different photographs of the same situation or setting. The spatial images create and transform themselves according to viewer’s perspective and motion, blending the projections of moments, bodies, objects and backgrounds together. Thereby, the artist’s aim is to create the experience of viewing that resembles to looking at sculptural objects, and to situate the past-images from personal archives into the actual moment of that experience.
The rest of the exhibition content consists of sculptures and images in various dimensions and techniques. By playing with different materials and perspectives, the artist’s purpose has been to move between the vague spaces of pictorial and sculptural, and to create a common room for the past and present impressions.
The exhibition is supported by the Arts Promotion Centre Finland and the Finnish Cultural Foundation.