{"id":1026,"date":"2025-03-21T10:56:41","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T08:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/turunlinna.fi\/wam2026\/nayttelyt\/pekka-and-teija-isorattya-dead-souls\/"},"modified":"2025-03-21T10:56:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T08:56:41","slug":"pekka-and-teija-isorattya-dead-souls","status":"publish","type":"nayttelyt","link":"https:\/\/turunlinna.fi\/wam2026\/en\/nayttelyt\/pekka-and-teija-isorattya-dead-souls\/","title":{"rendered":"Pekka and Teija Isor\u00e4tty\u00e4 \u2013 Dead Souls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Dead Souls exhibition in the main galleries of the museum showcases the production of Pekka and Teija Isor\u00e4tty\u00e4. The exhibition contains both new works by the artist couple as well as older works that the artists have modified for this particular show.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pekka\u202fand\u202fTeija Isor\u00e4tty\u00e4\u202fare best known for their mechanical sculptures, robots and installations that explore the human relationship to technology and nature in a poetic manner, but also with a bit of sarcastic tongue-in-cheek playfulness. The Isor\u00e4tty\u00e4s often use recycled materials, scrap metals and waste plastic, as well as bone and animal leather as the starting point for their works, combining them with technology. It is as though they give technology a life and a soul in their work \u2013 in both the good and bad sense, endowing it also with human weaknesses and mistakes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Pekka and Teija Isor\u00e4tty\u00e4 \u2013 Internationally Acclaimed Artists<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a similar vein to popular culture, the Isor\u00e4tty\u00e4s also use robots in their art to illustrate the conflict between a perfect, ideal person and real human weakness. The Isor\u00e4tty\u00e4s\u2019 use of robots with human deficiencies manages to crystallise something essential about being human. The trees, mechanical wolf and singing elk-head in the installation\u202f<em>Fail Tolerant Forest<\/em>\u202fshow how tolerant of faults nature is, that is, of us people. We hurt nature, even though we are a part of it. And, despite our actions, nature will hopefully remain after we are gone. Even though the Isor\u00e4tty\u00e4s deal with big and difficult themes, their works also contain beauty and lightness.\u202f&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Originally from Tornio, Pekka and Teija Isor\u00e4tty\u00e4 (both b. 1980) are internationally renowned and recognised artists. They have held exhibitions in, for example, Mexico, the United States and Japan. The artists have received the Lapland Art Award and the William Thuring Foundation Prize, and they were nominated for the Ars Fennica Prize in 2017. They have received Public Choice Awards from the Ars Fennica 2017 exhibition at Kiasma and the 2010 and 2011 Nord Art exhibitions in Germany. In addition to the Turku City Art Collection, their works are found in the collections of the Finnish National Gallery, the Aine Art Museum and the Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation Collection.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The exhibition is curated by Jonni Saloluoma, Exhibitions Curator at Museum Centre of Turku.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Photo: Ville M\u00e4kil\u00e4, Museum Centre of Turku.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dead Souls exhibition in the main galleries of the museum showcases the production of Pekka and Teija Isor\u00e4tty\u00e4. The exhibition contains both new works by the artist couple as well as older works that the artists have modified for this particular show. 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