7th – 13th September 2024

“In the wider frame of a participatory project – Pavilion of Embraces, dedicated to human relations and our shared human story – I carry out a participatory practice with movement and clay. Various groups of people – families, couples, friends, schoolmates, coworkers etc – are invited to participate. I lead them into a playful, 30-60 min long session where they collectively create their own clay sculpture: a relationship materialised in clay. The practice is above all designed and meant to celebrate or explore our relations through a shared and heart-warming experience of being-together… and if some participants may lack another hand to dance with – there is mine for them.

Since the sculpture grows as a spontaneous result of the movement dialogue between hands, no fine art or dancing skills are needed: open hearts have all that is necessary. The practice is suitable for everyone.

The project is also designed as a gift-exchange, so that each participant creates a tiny imprint, given further to an unknown person in another country, and equally receives one. 

In the long-term picture of the project every participant contributes one clay feather into an eagle wing installation and becomes a part of a garden of relationships.” 

Whilst traveling around Finland by campervan, Radharani connected with communities in various ways. Whilst in Varjakka, she worked with local schoolchildren, running workshops that resulted in small clay objects imbued with the impressions of group movement.
Her international travels have lead to a collection of small clay feathers created and shared with the people she has met. She created nests for some of these feathers in various locations around Varjakka and Hailuoto.

PAVILION OF EMBRACES // EMBRACES TO GO – Finland // 

“This work was produced with the financial assistance of the European Union. The views expressed herein can in no way be taken to reflect the official opinion of the European Union.”

The two-year project – PAVILION OF EMBRACES – is supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia