Showing posts with label Kaarina Kaikkonen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kaarina Kaikkonen. Show all posts

Monday, 19 August 2013

Blowing in the Wind


Imagine freshly washed linen hanging on endless lines, neatly arranged and put on to dry.  Finnish artist Kaarina Kaikkonen uses second-hand clothing, and mostly hundreds of discarded men’s shirts and jackets, to create huge installations which have been raising contradictory opinions and political controversy, which immediately reminds us of the open air laundries of Mumbai, for instance.