Tuomas A. Laitinen's The Earth is the Ear of the Bear will be presented as part of Avesta Art2026 – Earthly Bodies Born of Love at Verket in Avesta, Sweden. The group exhibition will be on view from May 23 through September 20.
By combining myth, perception, and material processes, The Earth is the Ear of the Bear by Tuomas A. Laitinen explores how landscapes and different environments can be perceived as active and sentient rather than just passive backgrounds.
The work gets its name from an excerpt from Roberto Calasso’s book The Celestial Hunter (2016), an elegant inquiry upon chasing and metamorphosis, presented as essential processes of becoming human.
Tuomas A. Laitinen: The Earth is the Ear of the Bear (2023), video, ultrasonic speakers, forged steel structures. Presented as part of Ars Fennica 2023 nominee exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma. Photo: Pirje Mykkänen / Finnish National Gallery