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EYES JR. by ELLIE HUNTER and ANNI PUOLAKKA at CORDOVA [from 20211205 to 20220219]
[Photos: Roberto Ruiz]
"I remember you saying once that you wanted to live inside as many bodies as possible, Mother, not just the five bodies that came from your belly. Art is a non-linear form of reproduction, moving forwards and backwards in time. I want to be part of something like that. I want to be pregnant with your legacy, Mother. To decompose and birth you with the others. Maybe then we wouldn’t all be so lonely."![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4233d4cd3dece8d62fa7b6a37e46c179b8825557d821e98890afb114398a70ab/02EyesJr.EllieHunter_AnniPuolakka7.jpg)
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Eyes Jr. is an exhibition featuring individual and collaborative works from artists Ellie Hunter and Anni Puolakka. The show houses sculptures, paintings and a film which serves as its main protagonist, cradled inside of a large-scale inflatable corporeal structure which the audience enters. Entitled Eyes Jr., the film follows a group of five siblings on the day of their mother’s funeral. Through a continuous conversation set around a table, the siblings cut cake and discuss their relationship to their recently deceased mother, positing and debating their varying opinions about the role of a mother and their respective reproductive politics. The film was shot by the artists and the characters are portrayed by hand-sewn dolls controlled like marionettes from out of shot. The mother of these sculptures, who had recently passed away of old age, was herself also a sculpture, in her case large-scale, metal and covered with multiple eyes. She was not made by the artists but rather by a particularly well-known French artist who died in the early 21st century.
In addition to their own collaboration for the works in the exhibition the artists collaborate with two Barcelona-based initiatives. Firstly, Jokkoo; a music collective dedicated to diffusion and creation of experimental electronic sound(s) from Africa and its diaspora, who have created a soundscape and live performance for the exhibition’s opening. And secondly, Sandia, an arts education program for LGBTQ+ youth whose course directors, in tandem with Hunter and Puolakka, have designed pedagogical scores with themes present in the exhibition.
⁂ Many thanks to Maguette Dieng for fabricating the inflatable.
⁂ This project is commissioned by The Finnish Cultural and Academic Institutes’ Together Alone 2.0 project, and supported by the Arts Promotion Center Finland and the Finnish Cultural Foundation.
[Text: Cordova]
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