Emelie Luostarinen: Blue Blue
\r\n\r\nIn Blue Blue Emelie Luostarinen takes a look at the relationship between the body, emotions and the surrounding world. She has drawn her inspiration from Takotsubo, the medical term for what is usually called a broken heart. Luostarinen is a painter who looks beyond the canvas, using various materials and shapes to construct a network out of the parts of the exhibition, all in dialogue with each other. Blue Blue is based on an encircling movement, and on shapes that fill the entire gallery space.\r\n\r\nThroughout the ages, doctors and researchers have seen a pattern in the way emotional stress affects the heart, even causing heart failure and heart attacks. But it was only in 1990 that Japanese researchers, aided by angiography, were able to see actual physiological changes in the heart, and this phenomenon was given the diagnostic name Takotsubo. The name comes from a Japanese fishing pot used to trap octopus. When someone begins suffering from Takotsubo, their left ventricle actually takes on the shape of the trap. The disease is being studied extensively all over the world, but it is still something of a mystery. It has yet to be established what mechanisms trigger its onset and, at…
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