Dissolving Frontiers
Exhibition Dissolving Frontiers at Gallery Augusta/HIAP, with installation views documented from the show.
About the exhibition
Dissolving Frontiers was exhibited at Gallery Augusta/HIAP. The project is listed among the curatorial initiatives documented on this site, alongside works such as Floating Ghost and the Skills of Economy Event.
Installation views from the exhibition are presented above. Photography for the installation views is credited to Hertta Kiiski.
Venue: Gallery Augusta/HIAP
Category: Curatorial project
Photo credit: Hertta Kiiski
Further information on the HIAP event listing: www.hiap.fi/event/dissolving-frontiers
Dissolving Frontiers is a curatorial project documented on this site, presented with installation views from an exhibition held at Gallery Augusta/HIAP. The photographs of the assembled space record how works were positioned within the venue, giving the project a physical afterlife once the show has closed. Photography for these installation views is credited to Hertta Kiiski, whose images carry a quiet observational tone that suits the exhibition's reflective character.
The project sits alongside other curatorial initiatives documented here, including Floating Ghost and The Skills of Economy Event, forming part of a wider body of work that treats exhibition-making as a subject in its own right. Rather than presenting artworks as isolated objects, these initiatives emphasize the conditions under which they are gathered, contextualized, and made public, turning the institution itself into material for critical reflection.
Visually, the exhibition documentation fits the restrained editorial character of this site: muted, neutral tonality, generous spacing between image blocks, and small caption lines that do the work of labels. The imagery is treated as evidence rather than spectacle, allowing the arrangement of the room to speak for itself. Nothing here is promotional; the emphasis remains on process, on the decisions that shape a display and the mood that lingers after visitors have gone.
Curating an exhibition also means authoring the frame through which everything else is read. In Dissolving Frontiers, the thematic title suggests boundaries that are porous and permeable rather than fixed, an idea consistent with the wider concerns visible across this artist's practice, from public institutions and portable museum ideas to questions about work, economy, and the place of the artist within structures of production and display. The documented installation views preserve that question in a durable form.