Transit / Umbra is an exhibition consisting of house-like sculptures by ceramic artist Niko Mankinen and on view in Laterna Magica's Tile and Cellar Galleries 13-30 November. Exhibition opening on Tuesday, November 12th from 5 p.m to 7 p.m. Warm Welcome!

The exhibition is an installation, a whole viewed as groups of works and as individual works, the parts of which are in dialogue with each other. The starting point of the works was a reflection on the simultaneity of destruction and growth, decay and development. In addition, the variation of light and shadow and the repetition of the structure are present in the works. The installation offers the viewer an opportunity to think about past and future events in the phases of the buildings.

Niko Mankinen is a ceramic artist from Helsinki who works with ceramics using various techniques. The main technique of the works in the Transit / Umbra exhibition is hand building, but the exhibition also includes parts of the works made with slip casting. One of Mankinen's interests is the traditional wood firing of ceramics. The exhibition includes several works fired in a Japanese-style anagama kiln, which were realized in Orimattila in Finland and in Kohila in Estonia.

Mankinen is a master of arts graduate from Aalto University in 2021 who, in addition to his artistic work, works as a teacher in visual arts. Laterna Magica's exhibition is the last of a series of three exhibitions where the Transit / Umbra installation is on display this year adapted to different exhibition spaces. The previous venues were in February in Vantaa and in July in Tallinn.

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