Things have a way of arranging themselves.
Things have a way of piling up.

Everywhere, all the time, work is being done to stop or reverse time. People want to preserve things, even though that goes against their very nature. There’s a constant sense of excess around us. Things are always spilling over the edges. They’re trimmed, swept back, bordered, and pruned with shears. But every act of containment inevitably leads to new overflows: a cut branch sprouts. Things resist staying within definitions, neatly folded or in place. Everything tends toward mixing, everything tends toward chaos.

What if we just let it spill over?

It’s becoming increasingly clear that our understanding of order is flawed. Nature probably wouldn’t recognize the concept of waste. The sea arranges the stones on the shore correctly with each wave. There are just things on their way to becoming something else, in thickets and piles.

The destruction surrounding us doesn’t look like chaos to us. You can see it in the straight lines, rows, cubes, rectangular fields in the valley, uniform surfaces. Surfaces that repel dirt and life. We surround ourselves with dead squares, trying to halt movement within them.
All the time I feel like I should open the window.

Iida Pii (1989)

The main materials of my works are thoughts and feelings. Sometimes, to assemble them, I also need to purchase and make different utensils.

I follow a pale blue thread.

From the edges of mind maps, you can find crumbs that attract each other, condensing what is essential between them.

Everything connects with

-dashes

-Blu-Tack

-unspoken agreements

-extended Lundia shelves

The exhibition has been supported by Arts Promotion Center Finland (Taike).

Iida Pii
Observations on the Order of Things
6–29 September 2024
Photographic Gallery Hippolyte

image: Iida Pii, Havaintoja asioiden järjestyksestä, 2024