The visual identity for Tapiolan Yö, a light and sound art event in Espoo, captures the mysterious and glowing atmosphere of the festival. Inspired by Tapiola’s iconic architectural landscape, the design draws from original blueprints to create layered textures and abstract forms. The result is a visual world that feels both modern and nostalgic: echoing the geometry, rhythm and quiet magic of Tapiola after dark.
I also participated in the exhibition part of the event. My artwork was projected on the wall of Tapiola church. In the artwork I talk about concrete and it’s part in the architecture of Tapiola. As a building material it’s quite controversal in many ways. It’s bad for the environment (huge co2 footprint) and aesthetically some people hate the brutalist style. Then again new innovations are little by little turning the emission rates to go down and brutalist architectural buildings are protected by associations and higher level deciders. Sill too many brutalist looking concrete buildings are about to be demolished. Tapiola included.
By using very colorfully thresholded videos of cement being mixed, the word ‘brutal’ flashing on the other square, asemic writing of different chemicals we need in that mixing process are changing and the nature finding it’s way to be balanced with human made structures, I wanted to subsume all the dissonances we have on this particular construction material.