Piles of things (2025) installation / 10-channel sound, stone casting powder, plaster, metal, wood, textiles, repurposed objects

About / Text by Katariina Timonen (Amos Rex): Humankind’s constant need to reach out to something higher is speculated in three upward-pointing, tower-like clusters. The structures consist of human-made, quasi-random articles and objects. Amid the delicately balancing piles we can make out different layers that refer to everyday life, time, and the question of authenticity.

The moment of tipping over and failure is perpetually close. Perhaps the clumsily devised control will soon fail. Sounds come from somewhere in the middle of the piles, sometimes fusing together to form a collective, emerging and disappearing soundscape. The installation is like a performance suspended on the spot. Different ways and acts of carrying, supporting, trying, but also of waiting and resting, are repeated, piled on top of one another.

Credits / sound design and post-productional arrangement: Joonas Pehrsson, choir direction and composition: Antti Suomalainen, voice rehearsals: Lempikuoro, voices: Jouko Kelomäki, Salla Laisi, Tuike Lehko, Leo Niemi, Roosa Pohjalainen, Auni Polojärvi Estarriola, Paavo Rinkkala, Aida Rähälä, Teresa Sadik-Ogli, Antti Suomalainen, sound recording: Miikka Huttunen, Sonic Pump Studios, structural design and construction: Willem Heeffer, costume design and manufacture: Jaana Haaksiluoto, models for the sculptures: Noora Bosch, Olga Bosch, Ignata Elana, Elias Girod, Willem Heeffer, Jaana Jussila, Ilona Jäntti, Kolya Kotov, Milan Marttiini, Marja Patrikainen, Auni Polojärvi Estarriola, Ilkka Sariola, Henna Soronen, Mikko Suominen, Katariina Timonen, Inari Virmakoski, Markus Åström, studio assistance: Ignata Elana, Marja Patrikainen, Salome Rajanti, financial management: Satu Alhojärvi, metal work: Levykaksikko Oy, photo documentation: Aukusti Heinonen / Amos Rex, Stella Ojala / Amos Rex, Kerttu Penttilä / Amos Rex With the support from / Amos Rex, Genelec, Kone Foundation, Arts Promotion Centre Finland, The Train Factory Shows /  Amos Rex museum, curated by Katariina Timonen (FI).