Angles of Incidence is a three-channel video installation about the Finnish immigration process. The film contrasts the experiences of refugees with the mundane spaces where the decisions about their future and residential status are made.
Read more »A rust coloured scarf around my shoulders, I walk in a circle tied with a chain to an iron ring on a cliff on the South Eastern shore of Helsinki’s Harakka Island and pour rust coloured water on the snow.
Read more »Guests at the various exhibition openings are seen as a background for a monologue by a bohemian artist. He is reciting a list of his questionable achievements in the art world.
Read more »Edited from an interview with Michael Molnar, the director of the Freud Museum in London, the piece is a meditation on curatorship, personality, and the position of acting as a conduit for someone else's memory.
Read more »I am standing with a blue scarf on my shoulders on a cliff of Harakka Island and looking out to sea, for a day and a night during Easter, 12 times, with two-hour intervals, from April 10 at 19:00 to April 11 at 17:00 in 2004.
Read more »Part 1. I am standing with a blue scarf on my shoulders on a cliff on Harakka Island and looking out to sea, for a day and a night during Easter, 12 times, with two-hour intervals, from April 10 at 19:00 to April 11 at 17:00 in 2004.
Part 2. The same shore filmed 12 times, on the same occasions.
I am sitting with a red scarf on my shoulders on a ledge on the northwestern shore of Harakka Island, 43 times, approximately once a week from April 11, 2004 to March 20, 2005.
Read more »Based on the Planet of the Apes trailer. Three versions, each 45 seconds long.
Read more »AquaRium, a dreamlike recollection, comments on the twistedness of our time. It pointswisely hindsight at the choises made in our recent history and examines the questions of being set free and closed inside.
Read more »The remnants of classical sculptures float like islands in an endless sea-like space. Although the animation is about the constantly ongoing destruction of culture, the work is beautiful and meditative.
Read more »This three-part video installation builds tension through a javelin appearing to fly from one monitor to the other. Between the two monitors there is a projection of power cables, as filmed from a moving train. The starting point of the work comes from the will to go on, as seen through sports.
Read more »A depiction of absence and alienation as a spatial experience; and of finding and constructing a familiar and personal space. A set on the theatre stage functions as an allegory for home. The journey starts from Helsinki and through Chicago returns back to Helsinki.
Read more »As a conceptual fiction Asphalto describes the relationship of a man and a woman by means of metaphor and visual symbols related to asphalt, service stations and automotive sports.
Read more »The work juxtaposes video performance with still images as an attempt to retrieve one memory from the artist’s past and place it into a space in her current life. “The space is yours, do what you want,” said one dance teacher to her a long time ago.
Read more »A small declaration of love. The video refers to a French song of Claude Nougaro from 1960’s, in which a man runs after a woman and finally finds her at the Place de la Concorde.
Read more »A white liquid slowly overflows, covering the dark background from top to bottom. The white image is wiped clean, revealing a woman behind it.
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Aurora is a girl who doesn’t know how to say no and doesn’t want to say yes. An autobiographical story about being too nice and forgetting oneself, one's own needs and desires.
The work consists of three parts: 'Silent', 'Storyboard' and 'Counter Proposition'. The first part inclueds all the footage. The second and third part are edited according to the storyboard. The scene takes place in a bar set.
Read more »A song and an animation about a sad plastic bag. She sees no other way out than to eat all the flowers she finds in her boring home town.
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