A text by Amanda Sarroff about the collaborations and the works:

"Niina Tervo’s intuitive sculptures explore our relationship to and communication with the other (animate and inanimate) through exploring the body as a part of what she calls the intangible world.Tervo’s multisensory sculptures open our bodies and minds to hidden ways of responding to this Other. Often, she uses materials that disintegrate or dissipate over time. Through the process of molding and seeing what emerges, she draws out her own emotions and memories, while absorbing the energy of the raw material. The result is a gesture molded of self and matter.Among her latest works, on view as a part of an installation, is a sculpture made of eggplant skin, accompanied by a text by writer and poet Milka Luhtaniemi. Tervo used the vegetable’s hollowed-out flesh to make baba ganoush, which she served to Luhtaniemi. In eating and metabolizing it, the author transformed the flesh into written word. Together, the artists explored the information Tervo could impart in the making of her purée and that which Luhtaniemi could glean from eating it. For Tervo, the work is about inviting someone to think along with and lead thought in a new direction, thereby opening a pathway to new storylines."