Years, days

Milja Laurila explores the changing position of women in society since the early 20th century. Working with photographs from old medical books, she examines how women and their bodies have been observed, documented and represented. In Years, Days, Laurila brings these women into dialogue with natural stone. Both bodies and stones carry traces of time. The veins, layers, cracks and furrows of stone can resemble skin, while its structure records processes spanning millions of years. The works function as a double exposure, bringing together geological time, the instant preserved by photography and the fragile time of human memory. Geological processes erase and transform what came before, just as memories change or disappear. Laurila considers what remains, what disappears and what is transformed.