Acts of mending and maintenance are the subject of the Fix: Care and Repair exhibition in Helsinki, Finland. Here, its curators share five works that shed light on a rarely celebrated topic.
The Fix: Care and Repair exhibition brings together objects and artworks that tell a story about shifting social attitudes towards repair.
"The way we treat broken objects reveals something about us and our society," said co-curator Kaisa Karvinen. "Do we consider repairing real work? Do we consider a repaired object beautiful?