Between 2006 and 2009, Ann Pelanne made several visits to quiet little village, and to the premises of what used to be Kellokoski Ironworks, to take photographs. These trips were made in different years and different seasons. The result was Mariefors Blues, the artist's interpretation of the ironworks as they are today, sleeping the sleep of Sleeping Beauty.
In the exhibition Ann Pelanne's photographs of the tranquil present-day scene are counterbalanced by black-and-white films of the life of the ironworks during its active period. For several decades starting from the 1930s, the Ironworks' owner Torsten "Totti" Carlander (1902-2003) recorded the life both inside and outside Kellokoski Ironworks. These nostalgic films show the Ironworks from land and air, the factory's products, and workers at their labours.
Meet-the-artist event at the exhibition on Sunday 30.5 at 13-14. The artist Ann Pelanne will be in conversation with Gunilla Carlander (Master of Political Sciences).
The Finnish Museum of Photography
Process Space, 1st floor
The Cable Factory, Kaapeliaukio 3, Helsinki
