Regions of Russia : "Destination Point is Karelia" Exhibition in St. Petersburg

"Destination Point - Karelia" exhibition goes from the 5th to 24th of November 2013 in the Peter and Paul Fortress of St. Petersburg.

The art show of two well-known artists Anastasia Khoroshilova (Russia, Germany) and Jaakko Hekkilya (Finland) focuses on one matter - Karelia.

Exposed-to-view installation and photographs came out as a result of the artists’ research project. In the summer of 2013 they traveled to Karelia, where history and art and regional museums of Petrozavodsk and Joensuu, Medvezhyegorsk and Outokumpu, Kostamuksha and Sortavala became their reference points. The authors' objective was to investigate Karelia as a unique space, on the one hand, split by Russia-Finland state border, and the episodes of social, military and economic history, on the other - consolidated by a quantity of common features, allowing the politicians and economists, researchers and artists talk about an existence of special phenomenon - "Euroregion Karelia."

Over 100 pictures and narrative letters underlay an installation of Anastasia Khoroshilova. the centuries-old layers of culture and history connected in this work with individual fate, scene of action, with Karelia.

The main method of work Jaakko Hekkilya is a panoramic view. His sophisticated elongated horizontal photos incorporate the one in multi temporal and spatial contexts. On both sides of the border, from Joensuu to Sortavala, and from Kostomukshi to Outokumpu - the artist have met with deep native roots - the Karelian language, from the oral poetic tradition of which, in particular, well-known national literary symbol of Karelia "Kalevala" epic was shaped. Exposed-to-view authors’ poetic texts came as an outcome of these meetings along with photographs.

"Destination Point is Karelia" exhibition is part of a larger border cooperation project "The Museum Hypertext."