Ailo Riponiemi

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Born in Rovaniemi, a town of 65,000 souls located 6 kilometers from the Arctic Circle, Ailo grew up in an immeasurable space. Forests, hills, snow, as if forever. And then sometimes, villages, towns, small ski resorts, structures to ward off space. Motorbikes and snowmobiles soon proved to be the only way to reach these refuges. You had to be imaginative to fill them the rest of the time. With a skateboard, a snowboard, sledges and then, to follow in his friends' footsteps, skis. It was then that he watched a street segment with snowboarder Eero Ettala shouting, "I thought I was never going to put it down! From that moment on, every piece of urban furniture for hundreds of kilometers around was on probation for Ailo to come and compose his distensions of space in movement. Rip the streets, rule the park.