Anatomy of Dreams installation Added by MOA2006

Photo: Kati Tuomainen

The idea for the work came from old lotto tickets that have piled up in the artist's desk drawers along the years. Wool yarn entered the picture because of its ordinariness to which the lotto tickets, symbols of striving for a better life, would connect.
The ladders represent the stairway of dreams that gets climbed on in most Finnish homes on Saturday nights. It?s nice to fantasise what to do with a million even if the illusions never come through. Playing the lotto is a window to those things a person wants, if he had the courage to live out his dreams ? and one doesn?t need heaps of cash to do it.

Kati Tuomainen began studying art in 1996 in the Laajasalo College, where she studied visual communication. She graduated as a designer from the Kuopio Academy of Design in 2001. She is complementing her degree in the School of Design at the University of Art and Design Helsinki, graduating as an MA in spring 2006.
Since 1996 Tuomainen has actively exhibited her work around Finland. Her characteristic way of using recycled material to make art began with her first solo show in 1998. Also in her MA diploma work Tuomainen explores the use of recycled material in art, and intends to publish a book on the subject in the future.
Tuomainen's international carees started in 2000 from Shigaraki ceramic cultural centre, Japan.

Contact:
kati.tuomainen(at)uiah.fi
+358 50 591 1011