December 3–7, 2024
The Limits to Growth
The Limits to Growth
NADA Presents
Secret locations around NADA Miami
Jaakko Pallasvuo. Graphic design by Marina Veziko.
1pm–6pm daily
During the fair week, the NADA Miami visitor may encounter a figure at the Ice Palace Studios immersed in reading The Limits to Growth, a report written in 1972 by environmental scientists Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, Jorgen Randers, and William W. Behrens III. The report predicted and discussed the now implemented imbalance between ideals and dreams of exponential economic growth and our planet’s factual resources.
In addition to their deviant art fair activities, the person is wearing an artwork and carrying one on them. Limits to Growth is a nomadic exhibition and a performance moving around NADA Miami site, addressing various social and economic power structures and art world dynamics in relation to a person’s inner dialogue and the realm of feelings and emotions.
The project brings together a performative work by Nestori Syrjälä alongside new commissioned works by Jaakko Pallasvuo and Bogna Luiza Wisniewska.
In addition to their deviant art fair activities, the person is wearing an artwork and carrying one on them. Limits to Growth is a nomadic exhibition and a performance moving around NADA Miami site, addressing various social and economic power structures and art world dynamics in relation to a person’s inner dialogue and the realm of feelings and emotions.
The project brings together a performative work by Nestori Syrjälä alongside new commissioned works by Jaakko Pallasvuo and Bogna Luiza Wisniewska.
It is curated by Elina Suoyrjö and organized by the Finnish Cultural Institute in New York.
The performers are Heather Lyon and Misael Soto.
The performers are Heather Lyon and Misael Soto.
About Jaakko Pallasvuo:
Jaakko Pallasvuo (b. 1333) is an artist and writer living in Helsinki. Pallasvuo’s works are not about anything and have been exhibited at the 14th Baltic Triennial, BOZAR, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw and New York Film Festival, among other places. Pallasvuo’s comics for the instagram account avocado_ibuprofen were collected into a book by Perfectly Acceptable Press in 2021.
About Nestori Syrjälä:
Nestori Syrjälä works with sculpture, installation and public interventions. For the past ten years he has been obsessed with the crisis in human relations with the environment: the ground under our feet, the air we breathe, and the oceans that surround us are all turning strange. Syrjälä’s work explores this strangeness through his material sculptural practice as well as through performative situations created in public space. Syrjälä has studied sculpture in the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts and the Royal Institute of Art in Sweden. His work has been shown at Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Matadero Madrid and Gwangju Biennale.
About Bogna Luiza Wisniewska:
Bogna Luiza Wisniewska (b. 1988, Poland) is a soft-hearted person who lives and works in Helsinki, where she maintains an arts practice that fosters cozy spaces and good company, bringing people together through painting, ceramics, textiles, exhibition-making, installation, cooking, gardening, and hosting. Her practice is rooted in care, kindness, fragility, queerness and the exploration of these elements through various mediums. She is also part of the artist-run gallery SIC. https://bogna.works
Bogna Luiza Wisniewska (b. 1988, Poland) is a soft-hearted person who lives and works in Helsinki, where she maintains an arts practice that fosters cozy spaces and good company, bringing people together through painting, ceramics, textiles, exhibition-making, installation, cooking, gardening, and hosting. Her practice is rooted in care, kindness, fragility, queerness and the exploration of these elements through various mediums. She is also part of the artist-run gallery SIC. https://bogna.works
About Elina Suoyrjö:
Elina Suoyrjöis a curator and writer currently working as the Director of Programs at the Finnish Cultural Institute in New York.
Elina Suoyrjöis a curator and writer currently working as the Director of Programs at the Finnish Cultural Institute in New York.
About The Finnish Cultural Institute in New York:
The Finnish Cultural Institute in New York, founded in 1990, is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. The institute has grown from a residency program to an organization commissioning large-scale projects and events that foster critical dialogue and work to build support for professionals in architecture, design, and contemporary art.