The Tiny, Huge Zine is printed on thermal paper and displayed at the GAP window. It continues a series of zine-making and reading activities presented in various formats and sizes. While the themes of the artist’s zines often explore neurodiversity and queerness in Finland, this edition focuses on other mundane topics, such as correspondences and childhood memories in South America, the puzzling nature of individuals who do not know that cashew is not merely a nut, a fleeting encounter with a bug wrapped in plastic during a flight, and a wet institutional encounter organised by a university for its international staff members. The organisation of the displayed items was not premeditated; it merely followed the protocol: every image is a change of direction; but not all changes of direction require an image.
About the artist: Fran Trento (b. Brazil, 1987) is an artist-researcher living in Helsinki, Finland and São Paulo, Brazil. Fran is currently a researcher at the Department of Geosciences and Geography at Helsinki University and holds a PhD in Communications and Semiotics (Media Studies) at PUC-São Paulo. They develop multimodal art in diverse media, such as photography, text, video, and performances, having exhibited their work at Galleria Loisti, Myymällä2, Örö Fortress Island ORES Summer Exhibition, Stoa, and other places. Fran is interested in performance art, non-dyadic modalities of togetherness, anti-work activist, photography and performance art.
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GAP WINDOW is a window exhibition project initiated by Globe Art Point in 2021. The concept was created for the members of GAP Creatives Database with an aim to provide a unique opportunity to exhibit and/or experiment with their own artistic work and ideas.
Our window is visible from the street, you do not need a special access to see it. The art is lit daily between 9.00-21.00.