The artist is present at the gallery on Sunday January 26 from 2 pm to 4 pm.

I return to my home village to be a marmite…marmalade, Marmite, hermit? I return so I can drive my car over a landscape, whose elements of different colours are stacked neatly, one on top of the other. I return to reflect on what happened elsewhere. The diamond-hard eyes of the granite meet mine in the rearview mirror, winking at the thief in the night, while the car speeds through the dark fields like a beetle with lamp-like eyes. As expected, the surrounding greenery lurks unchanged in its place like a concoction. As the months slip from August towards the year’s end, the fields along the driveway shift color with a flicker, just as I had anticipated – a glide from bright green to yellow, before suddenly plunging into a ploughed pitch-black.

Iisa Lepistö’s first solo exhibition, Let me look at your dream, returns to the familiar landscape of the artist’s hometown, while delving into the dramaturgy of memory. The four sculptures on display at Galleria Sculptor’s Studio form an installation that combines stone, wood and watercolour painting. Standing on sturdy granite pedestals, the figures in the exhibition represent embodiment of memories: phrases engraved by hand on the stone and paintings on the wooden boxes merge words and images in a way that is uniquely characteristic of the artist.                                                                                                          

The exhibition is supported by the Kone Foundation. The artist would like to thank Minjee Hwang Kim, Pablo Laune and Jerry Muho for their help during the process.                                   

Iisa Lepistö (b.1994, Sipoo) is an artist who primarily works with stone, using text and sculpture as her mediums. Her works explore themes of memory, continuity, and rhythm, while navigating the interplay between language and image. She is interested in the tension between the long history of stone carving and the present moment, which offers a rich background for her artistic practice. Lepistö holds a Master of Arts degree from the University of the Arts, Academy of Fine Arts, in 2020. In 2024, she was awarded a scholarship for young sculptors by the Raimo Utriainen Foundation.