Inari Kiuru

About the Works

Eye, the beholder II, 2023
locally found discarded material, material experiments and hand-fabricated objects

Eye, the beholder, 2023
series of photographs c. 2013-2023
giglée print on archival stock

Courtesy of the artist

Eye, the beholder

I move about in my neighborhood sliced by tram tracks 
Just as I did in the forest as a child,
With the same ease; open, quiet, soft, scanning the ground 
Like a curious animal, senses keen

Foraging.

My own children, born here, are already at school
Plenty of years to learn the local pavements, Each crack, stain and spill a remembered shape in me
This kind of knowing is how a wild thing spots what’s fallen newly
- and takes it!

Walking, these instincts, older than my body.

The fragments I gather are no different 
From the treasure long ago
A leaf, torn cardboard, a pebble, some wire  
Each the only one there is.
And later at home when I arrange my harvest 
in ways that please me
I am my ancestors, again.

There’s also this (I can say at fifty, when thoughts sometimes inch towards time):

How a piece of paper gives itself to water
The way a surface rusts, and forgotten stuff merges with the ground
Freely, without hesitation, in full -
not disappearing, but becoming

This is how I, too, would like to be.

Inari Kiuru

About Inari Kiuru

Inari Kiuru is a Finnish-born multidisciplinary artist and designer. She translates her native relationship with wilderness and changing seasons into objects, images and words reflecting the interaction between nature, weather and urban environments, together with our own inner landscapes.

Known for her street photography and poetic, experimental use of non-precious industrial materials such as concrete and steel, the core of Inari’s practice is revealing beauty within ordinary everyday things.

Inari is represented by Funaki, Melbourne.

https://galleryfunaki.com.au/artists/inari-kiuru/

Image top: Inari Kiuru, Eye, the beholder II, 2023 (installation detail). Photo: Inari Kiuru / Courtesy of the artist.