Onoma’s summer exhibition 2022 explores multi-sensory experience through art, design and craft. The exhibition was held at the Copper Smithy gallery in Fiskars, Finland.

The “Jätetty Jälki / A Trace Left Behind” installation work explores the creator’s touch, the momentary event, and change. Finger impressions are left in the hand-formed clay, the clay hardens, and it is eventually fired into ceramics. The object preserves and makes visible its creator’s touch. The work is intended to leave a mark on the world. Fired ceramics will survive for thousands of years, and the fingerprint impressed into it will live on, acting as a reminder of its creator’s existence.

The installation consists of seven ceramic objects and painted cast plaster. The names of the ceramic works refer to transitory moments and change. Darkness turns into light, a bud bursts into bloom, and even a stone is constantly changing. Change is inevitable, whether it is slow or rapid.

Text: Asta Honkamaa, Rosanna Kemppi, Sara Melleri, Annika Poijärvi and Kreeta Salminen.

Directed by Sara Melleri.

Set design: Tero Kuitunen.

Costume: Auli Turtiainen.

Lights: Julia Jäntti.

Sound: Olli Valkola.

Video: Jonatan Sundström.

Buto coreography: Ken Mai.

Mask: Petra Kuntsi.

On stage: Asta Honkamaa, Rosanna Kemppi, Sara Melleri, Annika Poijärvi and Kreeta Salminen.

The Betty Show is an orgy of lace, sequins, platinum blonde curls and carbon black, smeared eyeliner. The five “Bettys" are hard-styled vampires and their scene is equally glamorously adorned with undulating draperies of cut and glossy satin fabric.

On the National Theatre's Vallila location, the five actors Asta Honkamaa, Rosanna Kemppi, Sara Melleri, Annika Poijärvi and Kreeta Salminen take turns taking on the role of Betty, a generic figure used to explore female addiction. The quintet is the performing arts group Delta Venus, which has also written the script.

The theme of addiction is not in itself cheerful, but when a large portion of humor and old-fashioned Hollywood glamor are mixed in, it becomes easier and more enticing to confront it. The title's subtitle "A Fantasy About Addiction" is descriptive because it is also the popular cultural and commercial Marilyn Monroe image of the female addict that the show examines.


Isabella Rothberg Theater Editor

Pictures: Katri Naukkarinen & Tero Kuitunen

Fiskars Summer House presents nine rooms inspired the summer life of artists. The rooms are designed together with top Finnish designers and design brands. I designed fireplace room with Hakola inspired by artist Rauha Mäkilä

I was founding member of a Finnish design brand Andbros. Building a design company from the beginning has given me a lot of experience in design marketing and in building a story for a new brand. Tasks I especially enjoyed was styling photo shoots and making sure new products get ready for the market.

Torikoju was project where I and a group of designers created a new concept for traditional Finnish market square stand "Torikoju". I was in charge of creating the porcelain tableware set and the pine tree tray's.

Keskeneräiset utopiat exhibition was held in Kantola building in an old factory area in Sunila, Kotka. The whole area is designed by Alvar Aalto. I was the curator, the initiator and artist for this exhibition.

Photos Timo Junttila Kerttu Penttilä, Marko Oikarinen, Venla Helenius, Gerard Cabarrocas Serra