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Saunan sylissä -näyttely on kahden taiteilijan Sanna Pelliccionin ja Gabriela Arianan installaatio–performanssi.
Saunan portin kautta astutaan saunan väkevään maailmaan, jossa ääni, kuvat, tekstuurit, liike ja kosketus kutsuvat yleisön saunan taajuudelle. Näyttelyssä kuunnellaan saunan perinteisiä lauluja joiden juuret ulottuvat tuhansien vuosien taakse.
Moniaistisesti avautuva tila arjen ja taiteen rajapinnalla kutsuu kaikkia kokemaan saunan maailmaa ja saunomisen ikiaikaisia juuria.
Saunan sylissä koostuu maalauksista, vasta- ja saunan voiteet -installaatioista, äänimaailmasta ja live- performanssista.
Tämä kokonaisuus eri elementteineen asettuu hyvin erilaisiin sisä -ja ulkotiloihin
Into the Sauna’s Embrace is an installation–performance by artists Sanna Pelliccioni and Gabriela Ariana.
Through the sauna gate, visitors step into the sauna’s powerful world, where sound, images, textures, movement, and touch invite the audience to sense and deepen into the different layers of the sauna’s experience. The exhibition features also traditional sauna songs whose roots stretch back thousands of years.
This multisensory space, unfolding at the intersection of everyday life and art, invites everyone to experience the world of the sauna and the ancient origins of sauna bathing.
Into the Sauna’s Embrace consists of paintings, sauna whisks and other sauna ointments installation, a soundscape and a live-performance. As a whole, with its various elements, the work adapts well to many different kinds of indoor and outdoor spaces.
Into the Sauna’s embrace/ Saunan sylissä coming up performances:
June/kesäkuu: Tuira Sauna festival as part of Oulu European cultural city 2026 program.
August/elokuu: KUBU galleria, Kemiö
About the artists:
Sanna Pelliccioni (1976) is a Helsinki-based illustrator-author, traditional sauna keeper and biologist. In her work she explores about taboo, cultural traditions-roots and the connection with nature. She has published 63 books that have been published in 10 languages. Pelliccioni, also, creates installations and exhibitions of her books. Her latest achievements include the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award Nomination in 2025 and 2026, Bratislava Biennale Plaque Award in 2024, IBBY Honorary list in 2023 and the Adventure prize, a Finnish lifetime award for illustrators in 2021. Her works have been shown in Finland, Japan, Sweden, Estonia, Spain, Korea, Slovakia and in Italy. She works in a multidisciplinary way, combining painting, writing, designing, singing to create spaces that nourish the human spirit.
