Urbanization Gargoyles and Other Stories presents two installations as well as photographs by Kristiina Koskentola. Her work traverses geography and time. The flux between the integration and disintegration of the object, subject, time and space plays a  primary role in her work. The conditions created are between perception and interpretation, not only a subject-object or static relationship, but rather a movement or process that establishes its own structure. 

The installation Urbanization Gargoyles (2010) investigates the interconnections between the urbanizing, thorn-down Beijing, its socio-political context and the loss of traditional values, environment, and social conditions due to rapid urbanization. In the installation the imaginary beasts, the gargoyles, are transformed into small-sized sculptures of dead dogs, domestic animals. The installation consists of a wall built from bare construction materials with the dog sculptures placed next to the wall, as gargoyles. The installation divides the space into four elements or Cardinal directions. In the photo series the sculpture gargoyle/dog is placed in different locations, reflecting on the relation between the transformed gargoyle and its environment.

The photo-based, kinetic installation Dialogue with the Flows (2010) is focused on interrelationships between spirituality and the ancient medical practice of cupping, and the metaphorical possibility of healing cultural concepts. 

Kristiina Koskentola, (Artist, MFA, FI/NL) is based in Amsterdam. She works with a wide range of media including installation, interventions, video, and photography.

Kristiin Koskentola has carried out on-going research in China since 2007. Recently she  published ‘Trans-Actions’, a publication documenting and investigating her projects in China and Mongolia, as well as exhibiting in the Zendai Moma in Shanghai, Gallery Huang Yan Contemporary Art Space in Beijing, Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden, W139, Amsterdam Gallery Hippolyte, Helsinki, and the 4th Baku Biennial of Conceptual Art in Azerbaijan, among other places. She will be presented in the Art Beijing 2010.