https://www.paavorabina.com/works daily 0.75 2022-12-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3dda885cfd79131b2016ac/1547808497857-64YSTUVLALCGGQMCVF18/Loppu_alku_1.2_Pieni.jpg Works End - Start - Past - Out, 2016 The difficulty of understanding one another creates the biggest problem we have today: intolerance. Intolerance is born in encounters with the unknown. The unknown becomes threatening when people don’t have appropriate means to understand and thus gain control of new situations. When we are threatened, we feel insecure. It is this insecurity that won’t empower us with the courage to try to understand the unknown. Digital C- print on Canvas 200 x 125 / 360 x 225 cm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3dda885cfd79131b2016ac/1548848908247-78R9FQIJOCBUQUYUXZ7Y/R%C3%A4bin%C3%A4_+030_WEB.jpg Works - The strongest one always has the power, 1989 Mahogany, chippendale chairs / Music: Caludio Monteverdi, ‘The coronation of Poppea’. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3dda885cfd79131b2016ac/1550669799724-48VD91WAPZNZ4MOEBNV3/image-asset.jpeg Works - In - Out, 2002 9-channel installation with sound HD-video / Stereo / Duration 06’32 min. Part of work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3dda885cfd79131b2016ac/1548330957140-0Z2JFF7IFIZXX2IYQ5RZ/Fuck+and+Peace%2C+2005+.jpg Works - Fuck and Peace, 2005 Mixed installation Digital C-print, diasec / 200 x 120 cm 1-channel installation Duration 01’00 min / Loop Installation view at Kuopio Art Museum / 2007 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3dda885cfd79131b2016ac/1547656446304-U7S74CJ4A5ZEO3H1RMGZ/Galleria-Sculptor---Paavo-R%C3%A4bin%C3%A4---The-Day-That-Will-Never-Come-3-%C2%A9-Titus-Verhe_2.jpg Works - Shame of poverty, 2018 The work speaks of our own queues for bread here in Finland and the message of the work is still valid. This is exactly what news reports of queues for bread are like. Standing in a charity queue is so shameful that nobody wants to have their identity revealed. We would also not really want to know who they really are. We would just not want to think about it at all. The message is simple: Remember, do not forget me. Be in my position for a moment and feel what I am feeling. It is not very difficult to do, even if it seems to be the most difficult task in the world. Pigment print on aluminium, neon-tubes, painted steel part of installation Photos by Titus Verhe https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3dda885cfd79131b2016ac/1548322766211-WWX98JXELRPBJ6OC4UU9/capital.jpg Works - Capital, 2005 Mixed installation Painted steel, blowers, euros in note 400 x 220 x 200 cm 5-channel installation with sound Installation view at Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland, 2005 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3dda885cfd79131b2016ac/1548776114067-0KVGAAMA813WA82DJY2T/R%C3%A4bin%C3%A4_+039_WEB.jpg Works - Untitled (They perish, that I might not perish), 1991 Mahogany, canvas, aluminium, plates / 375 x 197 x 20 cm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3dda885cfd79131b2016ac/1552387596227-2GCYBVFNQVQEOJ28G6TH/paavo_r%C3%A4bin%C3%A4_2018_photographer_christina_timonen_0007_christina_timonen_2018_1.jpg Works - Cleaner, 2018 Painted steel, rifle, laser 185 x 85 x 80 cm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3dda885cfd79131b2016ac/1552387909418-G7HIRO9457JVADBREEKC/IMG_3320.jpg Works - Next, 2018 painted steel, bullets, RGB-W Led -lights 220 x 35 x 5 cm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3dda885cfd79131b2016ac/1549970302416-82NSHUWLKAP0Y5MEEZY2/32_pieni.jpg Works - Storm in the city, 2011 Storm in the City was born as a community art project. Räbinä wanted to offer unemployed people in search of some direction in life something meaningful to do and an opportunity to have their voice heard by taking part in planning and executing an art project. With the exception of one professional actor, all the people seen in the video piece are amateurs who truly lay themselves on the line for the sake of the project. The same method was used in 2009 in an earlier video piece, Plan B, which also dealt with unemployment, poverty and the rise in inequality. The world has become harsh and merciless. Greed, unscrupulousness and pursuing personal gain colour the actions of both corporate leaders and common people. People seek happiness through economic success and forget to nurture spiritual and cultural capital. Our set of values is disintegrating, our needs becoming ever more superficial. Market forces have overthrown the Highest power. Markets have become god-like and they react to human decision-making either by becoming nervous, worried or pleased. Nervous market forces are placated by sacrificing jobs and lives of innocent people on their altar. Mass layoffs inspire increases in stock prices and make the shareholder’s accounts bulge. Simultaneously the unemployed are blamed for their situation. Unemployed people are viewed as a suspicious part of the populace, a group that has drifted away from the job market either out of its own laziness or stupidity. In Storm in the City, a man vents his frustration and anxiety by numbing himself with products of the pornographic industry and masturbation. Simultaneously a choir in the background loudly demands for bread. Instead of appropriate and analytical discussion, we are flooded with crippling multinational entertainment that distracts our attention with irrelevant things and leaves important current issues in the shadow. International program formats offer easy publicity to those that dream of fame; you can clear your way to stardom through song, dance or weight loss. It is easier to control your own body or the remote control than to control the society. Arising from social inequalities, Storm in the City is a fierce eruption in which Paavo Räbinä expresses in images and words the frustrations and anxieties of people battling with the disadvantages of market economy. In his works Räbinä wants to bring down false images and point out that there are always alternative ways of seeing and interpreting things, as well as possibility for change. 8-channel installation with sound HD Video / Stereo / Duration 22’30 min. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3dda885cfd79131b2016ac/1551788442062-OY43M1N9QNNIPTZ3QLPJ/Videoinstallaatio+%28+Nothing+else+matters%29%2C+still.jpg Works - Plan B, 2010 5-channel installation with sound HD Video / Stereo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3dda885cfd79131b2016ac/1547655610673-J14R9B71SL3X7GSYA8FZ/340X155cm_.jpg Works - The state that does not exist , 2018 painted steel, laser-cut letters, Digital PVC-print 420 x 210 x 10 cm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3dda885cfd79131b2016ac/1547821213462-DNG322U9MY15GSUU3KWO/Finlandia%2C+2015%2C+video+%2C-%C3%A4%C3%A4ni+installaatio.jpg Works - Finlandia, 2015 The premise of this exhibition is the theme of power and violence that seem to be a part of humanity. At the moment, for example, in Syria there is a bloody and violent struggle in process with the main reason being power. On a daily basis we are able to witness how power and violence are intertwined with cruel consequences. Power struggle, war and affliction as well as being a refugee has become everyday life for us – others grief and misery have been normalized for us. For refugees, who fall victim to power struggle, these kind of experiences from the war cause wounds. Healing of the wounds will last a long time – often affecting generations. Leaving scars to generations to be healed. Reflecting back to our 100-year old Finland – Finlandia – The history of my own home country was bloody and painful, leaving scars to those who fought for independence and continued from generation to generation – healing and recovering takes time. Yet, it was not appropriate to talk about it then and still is not now. Our generation today acknowledges the truth and suffering at last, but inheritance and suffering of fighters has left the mark for this generation as well. Through my work I am trying to crystallize and explore historical events near and far while trying to understand what can collective perception and experience of suffering teach us today? When is a war justified? What keeps a war going? How should war be understood and accepted? Do we accept issues without seeking reasoning behind the actions? Do we not take a stand on the issues that should be addressed? Are we taking full responsibility for common prosperity? My work stresses inequality and the downside of society. The emotional reactions of frustration, rage, anger and anxiety that marginalized people’s experiences today. I hope, through my work, to increase social awareness of others suffering and add value to smaller things around us without craving power. 2-channel installation with sound 4K / HD Video / Dolby Digital 5.1 Duration 15’18 min. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3dda885cfd79131b2016ac/1552396370443-TV85G41K5VC9I74ZAV8N/paavo_r%C3%A4bin%C3%A4_2018_photographer_christina_timonen_0005_christina_timonen_2018.jpg Works - In the end everything is gone, 2018 Painted steel, baseball bats, rope 400 x 80 x 50 cm Photo Christina Timonen https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3dda885cfd79131b2016ac/1548333088079-MQQ0R3XMWIQ0ME0NB6AR/untitled-3.jpg Works - Workers, 2005 Digital C - print, diasec 100 x 65 x 4 cm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3dda885cfd79131b2016ac/1548689398401-XZX58TIX3TXQQ4FA4AG9/R%C3%A4bin%C3%A4_+033.jpg Works - Tampere uprising, 1993 The main exhibit of Paavo Räbinä's 1993 exhibition at the Tampere Art Museum was a collage depicting the uprising in Tampere during the Finnish Civil War. The piece comprised large photographs of young men fighting in the ranks of the Reds and the Whites and of the battles in Tampere as well as a wall-to-wall knife installation. Räbinä, nominated young artist of the year, successfully captured the essence of historical events and collective emotions in his works. Mixed installation Black -White print, knives, Mahogany, Aluminium, silk Installation view at Tampere art Museum, Finland https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3dda885cfd79131b2016ac/1548346271656-GAXFC2ZEO3MJ4C6RLCME/Macbeth%2CSkulpturen+Hus%2C+Tukholma.jpg Works - Macbeth, 2000 The main themes of Macbeth are greed and the desire for power, with the rivals in this case being man and woman. Macbeth's characters do not have voices and their speeches were only seen as subtitles, only loud heavy metal drumming can be heard in the background 3-channel installation with sound Installation view at Sculptors House / 2001 / Stockholm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3dda885cfd79131b2016ac/1547810555359-JY2FOIS7UBFE9KS9U51L/image-asset.jpeg Works - We - With, 2016 Mixed installation 4-channel installation with sound HD Video / Stereo / Duration 00’22 min. / Loop Part 1 of 4-channel installation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3dda885cfd79131b2016ac/1549470834290-89TBQKP8UYB4W220V9UO/image-asset.jpeg Works - The mirror image, 2002 Paavo Räbinä’s Morphi shows us the faces of people changing: the face of a refugee boy transforms into the face of his mother, the father’s face transforms gradually into that of his son, the mother’s into that of her daughter. Who am I? Who or what determines my possibilities to live and develop as a human being and the way people relate to me? Räbinä’s Morphis also serve as a reminder of the fact that the essence of being a refugee is change, constant transformation. In order to survive, refugees are often required to adapt to a society and a culture that are very different from what they have experienced before. The Morphi videos have no soundtrack at all, something that can be interpreted as a strong deviation and a statement. It is typical of Räbinä to use music or other sounds to create atmospheric moods or to use music as a cinematic element. But refugees, the silent wanderers, have no voice. They have no power or strength. Yet, on the other hand, the artist may have thought that their faces would be sufficient, that they alone are a powerful enough means of expression, narration and of making an appeal to us. The Vapriikki exhibition only features a section of the whole Morphi video installation. It was originally created as a public work of art for the Tikkurila Upper Secondary School, which specialises in communication studies. The faces have been permanently installed there under a plate of glass in the school floor in different parts of the building such as the school café and dining hall. The gallery of faces shown in the installation includes all ethnic groups in Finland. As a public work of art located at a school, the Morphi installation speaks primarily for tolerance and for the acceptance of diversity in the midst of daily hustle and bustle. 9-channel installation HD-video / Duration 01’16 min. / Loop https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3dda885cfd79131b2016ac/1550067657219-TABLINJF7FC8NS53DKOA/i_talk01._WEBjpg Works - I talk with my hand, 1995 Man rotates in slow motion with riffles tied to his hands. Commentary on suffering and war. Part of work / C-print on aluminium 240 x 140 x 5 cm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3dda885cfd79131b2016ac/1548341817613-YQFLBJ9N26UWR08LSAGS/Yes+or+No.+Screen%2C+tif.jpg Works - Yes or No, 2002 Mixed installation 1-channel installation with sound https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3dda885cfd79131b2016ac/1548423437463-ESKYS2E40L712SI398LX/8.Minna+joessa+%28pk%29.jpg Works - True love, 2005 True Love is a drama about jealousy. It describes the breaking point of a relationship, when a man finds out that his wife has been unfaithful. A clash follows, after which neither party is like they used to be. 1-channel installation with sound https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3dda885cfd79131b2016ac/1548673063925-LWIP2STPX4T0GNB7VPRW/R%C3%A4bin%C3%A4_+009.jpg Works - The Seven Deadly Sins, 1988 The piece represents the journey of two sisters from Louisiana, “down by the Mississippi”, who are sent by their family – “mum and dad and both our brothers” - on a seven-city, seven-year journey to make enough money to build a small house. The sisters are imagined as “a double figure under a single shawl or cloak”. Both are called Anna. Anna 1, whose “head is on straight” is the entrepreneur type, and Anna 11, “the one with the looks”, is the artist, or as Brecht states, “the article sold”. The Family is a chorus intoning a running commentary on human assets, commodity prices, risk avoidance strategies and likely dividends. They invert the biblical imperative to avoid sin and be good with the capitalist imperative to exploit sin and make money. The seven deadly sins are the ’pride’, ’greed’, ’lust’, ’envy’, ’gluttony’, ’wrath’ and ’sloth’. The work continues to be the mirror of our modern society, as its ultimate goal of material satisfaction. Mixed installation 1 -channel installation with sound https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3dda885cfd79131b2016ac/1548435911669-CB1T8NW5K4AAJMMUGOUF/remember+us+02+kopio.jpg Works - Remember us, 1998 The work speaks of our own breadlines here in Finland and the message of the work remains valid. The shots used in Remember Us are very close to documentary news footage: the camera follows the people in the queue, initially showing just their legs and concealing their identity. This is exactly what news reports of breadlines are like. Standing in a breadline is so shameful that nobody wants to have their identity revealed. We would also not really want to know who they really are. We would just not want to think about it at all. However, the scenes used in Remember Us are not news footage, if only because the camera recording them is at an odd angle. This provides a new viewing angle, a point of view that is very different from that used for news reports. It is worth asking what is actually at an odd angle, the camera or the world. The beautiful and melancholy music used in the work gives it a fateful mood. The key scene of the work shows the person queuing for bread make a note in his notebook of the number of loaves received. The camera is standing behind his shoulder, the camera is the man queuing for bread. Through the camera I, the beholder, am the one queuing for charity bread. Mixed installation 1-channel installation with sound Music: Henry Purcell ‘Dido and Aeneas’ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3dda885cfd79131b2016ac/1553870965449-9OV183G0Z5X7IAV8L3H3/justifiedbylove.png Works https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3dda885cfd79131b2016ac/1548423085635-78YGEEDYGZN1RW9A8SFR/out_out01.2.jpg Works - Out, Out, Out, 2000 Out, Out, Out tells a story of a boy whose family was killed by an earthquake. The images of the clear-up and rescue operations could have been taken from any war field. Mixed installation 1-channel installation with sound Installation view at Galerie Forsblom / 2000 / Helsinki https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3dda885cfd79131b2016ac/1547743920829-RXS5I4ZU4YRIV4UCW2OT/PAKO_forumbox.jpg Works - Espace, 2016 Mixed installation 1-channel installation with sound 4K / HD Video / Stereo Duration 03’25 min. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3dda885cfd79131b2016ac/1547560598193-IOTZFFAA4U0CW9DOB4DS/paavo_r%C3%A4bin%C3%A4__2018_Galerie+_Sculptor.jpg Works - We are the soldiers of the righteous God, 2018 painted steel, ropes, neon tubes 400 x 285 x 35 cm Photos by Christina Timonen https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3dda885cfd79131b2016ac/1547742203345-9RTRPZ1L98QSQZNVHT2Z/paavo_r%C3%A4bin%C3%A4_2016_videoinstallaatio_El%C3%A4_still_photographer_christina_timonen_3+kopio.jpg Works - Live, 2016 I have always been interested in the marginalization of people in the modern society. I wanted to bring in actual marginalized people to demonstrate their pain, suffering, and dispare. Their raw emotions are powerful. I want to give the audience the most genuine feeling of what they actually feel. 6-channel installation with sound 4K / HD Video / Stereo / Duration 5’25 min. Photos by Christina Timonen https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3dda885cfd79131b2016ac/1551789665591-BORVAP6IWWSO1Y44GY8P/Taivas-Helvetti+I%2C+2009%2C+Paavo+R%C3%A4bin%C3%A4tif.jpg Works - Heaven and Hell, 2010 Digital C-print on glass 190 x 105 x 5 cm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3dda885cfd79131b2016ac/1548942782172-Z5KK738HFYN740NPVLVG/Suojelusenkeli-live+1.jpg Works - Guardian angel, 2013 Float Glass plate, sandblasting, Led-lights, sensor 180 x 12 x 6 m Särkijärvi bridge, Tampere, Finland https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3dda885cfd79131b2016ac/1669901062247-92Z1HQQ8XLDTPOWUQFOE/forumbox_2022_0006.jpg Works - Fighting is my protection, 2022 4000 Xx 2000 x 180 painted steel, bottles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3dda885cfd79131b2016ac/1669902919658-ZT45V6NTUZ1AKOQZLP26/forumbox_2022_0003.jpg Works - Brotherly love, 2022 2600 x 800 x 70 painted steel, billhook https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3dda885cfd79131b2016ac/1669903851009-PMO4ZBCH22TUYHNWY645/forumbox_2022_0007.jpg Works - Unwavering (Battlefield), 2022 2500 x 1250 x 1200 painted letters, laser-cut steel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3dda885cfd79131b2016ac/1669904221639-V8WXVX3R0MOKUG2LU0HZ/IMG_7995.jpg Works - From the series “Fighting for Compassion’, 2022 590 x 280 x 270 painted steel, laser-cut letters https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3dda885cfd79131b2016ac/1669908328313-VUWCN2OQNSDY8J473A0I/forumbox_2022_0011.jpg Works https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3dda885cfd79131b2016ac/1669906874200-TR08YFT5HURH6QIO3KDN/IMG_7993%2Bkopio%2B2.jpg Works - Crash What is the imagery of violence that we see every day on the television and what does it do to us? When is war justified? Where does war get its vitality from? What is my relationship to war? The purpose of my artworks is to disclose the motives of the acts of hate, historical events, and the collective sensations arising from those events; what those feelings are, and to make the viewer more conscious about them as well. Through the artworks of the exhibition the viewer can release and expand their thoughts on war, violence, and suffering – the purpose of tragedy is to help understand, relate, and feel compassion towards our fellow people. 6 - projection installation with sound, 4K car, sand Duration 6’ 35 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3dda885cfd79131b2016ac/1669904758877-E5OKN7RU9AG7YYARQUGJ/IMG_8001%2Bkopio.jpg Works - An eye for an eye, 2022 2 - projection installation with sound, 4K Duration 4’ 38 https://www.paavorabina.com/paavorabina daily 1.0 2019-03-29 https://www.paavorabina.com/news daily 0.75 2019-07-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3dda885cfd79131b2016ac/1549469022334-PFRIAGKATGWVXE6AQKEL/_MG_7217_2.jpg News https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3dda885cfd79131b2016ac/1549469161481-B7EOM1MHHIB7QM9UL87U/Ra%CC%88bina%CC%88_+033.jpg News https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3dda885cfd79131b2016ac/1549468008377-3IJHMOFSRUKRA49FP9KY/paavo_ra%CC%88bina%CC%88_2018_photographer_christina_timonen_0010_christina_timonen_5+kopio.jpg News https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3dda885cfd79131b2016ac/1549892438863-7IENYQ66F97JD9JIHV5L/forumbox_2016+kopio.jpg News https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3dda885cfd79131b2016ac/1549891362714-EDATDCC8JKLWX3QAI4IG/paavo_ra%CC%88bina%CC%88_%27Kanssa%27_2016_videoinstallaatio_kuva_christina_timonen_+kopio+2+kopio.jpg News https://www.paavorabina.com/contact daily 0.75 2019-03-29 https://www.paavorabina.com/about daily 0.75 2019-03-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3dda885cfd79131b2016ac/1551702413420-09S8TU3K31PJQKJ1HUHW/jarkko-rock16.1.jpg About - ‘Meanwhile Elsewhere’ Paavo Räbinä https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3dda885cfd79131b2016ac/1553357259856-8DWIGIFAAQHS15VXDJDX/IMG_2283.jpg About Paavo Räbinä (born 1965 in Kuopio) lives and works Helsinki. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki 1991. The mains topics of Räbinä’s art include war, violence, struggles for power, suffering and life as a refugee. Also Räbinä often finds the topics for his works from historical or literary sources, in the ”scar material” of our society or culture. Räbinä`s works have had a wide range of starting points such as the Finnish Civil War, devaluation, the power of money and poverty resulting from economic depression, as well as poems by Brecht and plays by Shakespeare. In his more recent works, Räbinä is still intrigued by the fate of people being caught up in the web of political and social change. In the works comprising the new exhibition, Räbinä turns his focus from the past to the present, giving a face to immigrants, refugees and to people queuing for bread. Dramatic changes in society and changes in the lives of individual people can cause mental wounds and scars, which can take several generations to heal. Räbinä's works study the values and mental state of people today. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3dda885cfd79131b2016ac/1551702668822-IC5ZHS1Y9SRE1FXXH2LI/epilogi.jpg About - ‘Moans of Scars’ Paavo Räbinä https://www.paavorabina.com/fighting-is-my-protection-copy daily 0.75 2022-12-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3dda885cfd79131b2016ac/18c76d3d-5dc1-458b-8201-55f15a7310ba/forumbox_2022_0006.jpg Fighting is my protection (Copy) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3dda885cfd79131b2016ac/e04acb17-8f8f-4e2f-87ea-9c903f00f932/IMG_8005+kopio.JPG Fighting is my protection (Copy) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3dda885cfd79131b2016ac/80984bfe-655a-4b8a-b330-2f647f510837/IMG_7987+kopio.JPG Fighting is my protection (Copy)