Sex / Male

Year of birth / 1963

Born 1963 in Helsinki, Finland. Lives in Helsinki, FI.

As co-founder of the Helsinki Film Workshop in the late 1980s, Seppo Renvall is a pioneer in Finnish experimental film. Although he works mainly with film and video, his artistic output also includes photography, installations and happenings. His films are characterised by an abstract imagery in black and white and a non-narrative structure that often focuses on the apparently commonplace and everyday, the things we tend to overlook, things just behind our shoulder. The rhythmic flow of images is crucial, thus logically connecting image and sound. In consequence, Renvall collaborates widely with musicians, DJs and audio specialists. The exhibition features the film Exotique, a poetic voyage through everyday life, where the flow of images of low-key architectonic details, fragmentary glimpses of passers-by, and a play of shadow and light over bare walls or unmade beds is accompanied by Zape Leppänen’s exotic audio web.