KRISTIINA LAHDE X MINNOW BATHERS

Using commonplace objects, Kristiina Lahde’s practice works in collaboration with her materials. Found or everyday objects, such as paper clips, rulers, library catalogue cards, and even blank sheets of ordinary computer paper are altered or re-assembled, in order to produce works in various media; including sculpture, installation, collage and photography. These everyday materials are modified or repositioned, often using geometry and pattern, to produce uncanny and unconventional new forms. Her intervening actions transform these materials and yet preserve, or even magnify, our ordinary experience of them. 

In Agony and Ecstasy Lahde focuses on the safety pin, the iconic symbol of punk fashion and DIY aesthetic. These safety pins have been energetically bent and contorted creating dynamic forms that are photographed revealing high contrast lines and shadows. Together, these safety pins seem to either dance… or riot!

Kristiina Lahde is a Toronto artist, represented by MKG127.

Agony and Ecstasy, inkjet print on hahnemühle agave, 
31 1/4 x 43 1/4”.