Grace Ndiritu, PoriPostModern, Pori Art Museum, Finland

Grace Ndiritu's solo exhibition at Pori Art Museum offers a holistic view into the artist's practice. The show combines the spiritual and the political, museum practices such as collection-making, and investigations into exhibition design and architecture as a type of spiritual technology.

Ndiritu’s installation, The Temple, functions both as modernist exhibition architecture and a spiritual communal space. The version built in the Pori Art Museum includes the artist’s own works and works selected from the museum’s collections.

The exhibition also includes the premiere of Ndiritu’s new film The Rehearsal. The film examines collective grief and disappointment with politicians, religious leaders and bankers, and how we must create new kinds of communities and families in order to cope. In addition, Ndiritu has selected the film The Judson Church Horse Dance (2010) by American artist Mike Kelley (1954–2012), in which the artist sees a kind of artistic and thematic kinship. Together, the films deconstruct the concept of performance as ritual.

The neon sculpture REPAIR AND RESTITUTION, installed in the sculpture yard of the art museum, brings together Ndiritu’s all-encompassing narrative, weaving together different historical periods and varied geographies, resulting in a re-evaluation of Pori Art Museum’s own history and its place in the world today.

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