Print of 'The Blue Route' by Kaarina Kaikkonen

210 x 297mm (including white border)

C-type print on matt paper

Photographic print of 'The Blue Route' by Kaarina Kaikkonen at Fabrica Gallery 2013.

Working primarily in public and easily accessible places, Kaarina Kaikkonen uses simple, every day objects such as second-hand clothing, toilet paper and women’s shoes, to create large-scale installations that articulate the architectural or open space in which her works are sited. She is best known for several major works using hundreds of discarded men’s jackets, which have a highly charged and personal significance for her. Though ambiguous in meaning her works evoke associations of personal loss, collective memory, and local history.

An artist of international renown, Kaarina Kaikkonen participated in the Cairo Biennale 2009, the Liverpool Biennale 2010, Vancouver Biennale 2010, and the Venice Biennale collateral event in 2011. In 2012 she completed a major new work for Collezione Maramotti in Italy and will create an installation for The Museum of Memory and Human Rights in Chile in 2013.