"I felt an urge to shake up this sleepy setting, and to seek out stories viewed from behind the camera lens. In my works I bring out the coarsely beautiful, which in me evokes positive thoughts and insights, and not a little humour. My soul in torment, but my eyes smiling."

That is how photographic artist Ann Pelanne describes her work and her photography trips to the area around the old Kellokoski Ironworks. Between 2006 and 2009, she made several visits to this 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.

Ann Pelanne: Chain of Time (2006-2009)