Press release:

The exhibition ’Vagrant and other works’ consists of videoworks, photographs and objects.The works (Vagrant, Wipe off, Fall parade and Liberation) are small actions, performances, which the artist has performed and documented.

Mikko Kuorinki has build the exhibition from the gestures of presence and absence: the artist is present in the videoworks as a performer, as a body, but at the same he is gone already somewhere else. He is turned away from the viewer and disappearing in the horizon – he is trapped in the endless movement of appearance and disappearance.

In his works Kuorinki looks into the experiences of rootlessness and loneliness: the search for a place and meaning in the world. At the same time the works describe the world as somewhat alienating, they create almost ’secretly’ a touchable surface and warmth. These seemingly simple and discreet actions grow into existential statements.

From the sorrowful beauty of the works grows perhaps a consolation, and at times even absurd humour. It is up to the viewer to decide where the vagrant is going: away from or towards something? Will he ever get to his destination or is the movement – wandering and searching- the destination itself?