The Biennale’s second main exhibition is KASTE / DAGG / DEW, the annual summer exhibition of The Onoma Cooperative of Artists, Designers and Artisans in Fiskars, curated and architecturally designed by Marco Casagrande.
Now in its 32nd edition, the cooperative’s summer exhibition explores the cycle of water and its role as the engine of the machine of life, positioning the human being as dew, too.
“Dew shimmers freely between the fields of art and science. The exhibition forms a kind of an organic machine, covered entirely in dew. The machine glistens, or sweats. The life-producing fabric of the surrounding nature continuously baptizes itself with dew; we are trying to connect with this ritual.
All of Fiskars Village began from a drop of dew. Otherwise there would be no river, no forging hammer,” Casagrande describes.
Approximately 60 artists are participating in the exhibition, the majority selected through an open call among members of the cooperative. In addition, a carefully considered group of Finnish and international practitioners has been invited to join in. Casagrande’s curation engages with the ironworks environment, the flowing river, and the architecture of the historic buildings in a way that invites dialogue with history and the Fiskars River.
A broad public program of talks, workshops and artist meetings will accompany the exhibition.