ELISA SAKKO

A Fix

2022

Fixing a mistake is clumsy, violent, determined, gentle.
An attempt to fix covers up, distracts, regrets and improves. After a mistake, the truth can be stretched or the mistake can be overlooked.
Mistakes can be repeated in a continuum. Correction succeeds or leads to something else.
What is lost can be tried to be replaced and mistakes slide across generations.
This is a series of attempts to fix.

While working with the series, I thought about the relationship between repair and concealment. I patched, decorated and imitated surfaces. I thought about hollowing, the awkwardness after a mistake, loss, shame, the sympathy of repair, success, moving on, forgetting and changing. The works in the exhibition deal with structures, decisions and actions taken, and the ambiguity and meaning of error.

The materials used in the works include various pieces of wood, steel, fabrics, nails, thread and ink. By exploring the relationships, friction and tension between the pieces, I have tried to outline the situations and the emotions and outcomes after the fix, possible intermediate stages. The pieces seek intimacy and air between them to form a whole.