On the occasion of Gallery Weekend Berlin, Snow is thrilled to present Aura Hakuri: Love Letters. Love Letters is Aura Hakuri’s second solo exhibition at Snow. On show is a new, large body of works on paper.

The enigmatic nature of Aura Hakuri’s work with the rawness of the small hand made paper format lead viewers to the realms of the unseen; dreams, memories, forgotten and future. Hakuri is employing colour intensely, and the more simplified composition highlights the mystery. The otherworldly creatures characteristic of Aura Hakuri’s art, the symbol like strange and familiar forms with saturated hues and earthy tones bring something invisible to the present.

Her small paintings are arresting in their intensity. Like letters, the paintings seem to carry information, revealing secrets and messages to the viewer. It remains unanswered what time or place the works are set in.

I dreamed I had taken all my works for the exhibition to the forest. I had spread them on the ground on the pine needles. I left the forest and went back to the city. I was in another place, but I saw how it started to snow in the forest. Big white flakes were floating down from the sky on top of the paintings. The occasional snowflakes turned into a snowfall and in no time the paintings were covered in snow. - Aura Hakuri, April 2023

Vernissage:

April 27, 6 - 9 pm

Meet the Artist:

April 30, 12 - 1 pm

Curated by Susanne Johansson

Biography

Aura Hakuri (1977) is a visual artist who lives and works in Helsinki, Finland. She works in the fields of painting, drawing and performance art (performance duo Linda and Aura). Hakuri has graduated (MA) from the Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki in 2007. She has held several solo exhibitions, participated in several group exhibitions and made numerous performances in Finland and abroad.

The materials and equipment that Hakuri uses are paper, watercolour, Indian ink, Sumi ink, and various drawing instruments. Her way of working is intuitive. She does not decide in advance the content or theme of the upcoming painting. The paintings often feature hideous characters, sore emotions – a wide variety of difficult-to-define events. Regardless of the subject, Hakuri approaches it with compassion and examines the whole spectrum of humanity through a gentle and benevolent smile. Hakuri paints images that reach for something common and essential in being human.