In Vice Versa, Kristiina Lahde uses conceptual processes to reposition found objects in an effort to reflect the intricate coexistence between order and chaos. Lahde explores how structure and disorder live side-by-side, or even within one another. She expresses some ways that form can be found within formlessness, and considers how repetition may evolve into meaning.

Lahde employs materials that are typically used to hold, bind, measure and identify. She reimagines these everyday items through photographic and printmaking techniques, capturing high-contrast images of objects in delicate arrangements. Models made from tiny straight pins are repositioned into enlarged and shadowy geometric structures. Measuring tapes have been crushed in a press, and now twist within distorted and tangled compositions. Safety pins have been bent and contorted in a dynamic manner so that they seem to either dance… or riot!

Vice Versa suggests that there is no either/or situation. Chance and predictability, structure and chaos all intertwine, informing everything from the mundane to the profound.

Kristiina Lahde’s photographs, prints and wall installation will be on exhibition at MKG127 Sept 9- Oct 14, 2023.