Almost All the Flowers in My Mother’s Garden
Hilla Kurki
Khaos
English
Softcover
Edition of 500.
144 Pages
145 x 200 mm
2022
ISBN 9789526847863
Almost All the Flowers in My Mother’s Garden is a 144-page work containing more than 100 pictures of flowers, mainly photographed in the author’s mother’s garden, and intimate memories of mothers by anonymous daughters. In the book the memories are merged together, and thus do not personify in one specific mother, making even painful memories easier to encounter. The flowers in the pictures symbolize the care, or the lack of it, that forms the basis of our growth.
The background of the work is the artist Hilla Kurki’s realization of the silent gap between herself and her mother. In conversations with other artists of her generation, many recognized something similar about their own relationship with their mothers. In the book the collected memories form a text, that alternates with the flowers, where artist from e.g. Finland, France, Slovenia and Hungary try to remember their mothers.
(source: https://www.khaospublishing.com/almost-all-the-flowers-in-my-mothers-garden#:~:text=Almost%20All%20the%20Flowers%20in%20My%20Mother’s%20Garden%20is%20a,of%20mothers%20by%20anonymous%20daughters.)
About the Artist
Hilla Kurki was born in Anjalankoski, Finland, in 1985. She lives and works in Helsinki. Her recent exhibitions include the solo show Fallen Feathers (from the Phoenix series), at Gallery Taik Persons, (Berlin, 2017) and group exhibitions, such as Photo the Finnish Museum of Photography (Helsinki, 2013).
(source: https://personsprojects.com/artists/hilla-kurki?x=bio#:~:text=Hilla%20Kurki%20was%20born%20in,Photography%20(Helsinki%2C%202013).)
About the Publisher
Khaos is an independent publisher based in Helsinki, Finland since 2015.
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