Elina Saloranta

Born: 1968

Elina Saloranta is a Helsinki-based artist, who works mainly with the moving image. In her doctoral thesis Genre pictures and experiments in writing, she explored the interaction between image, word and sound, and in her postdoc research she engages in correspondence with the past. Saloranta is also known for her photographic work Nun, which was shown in the ARS 2011 exhibition in Kiasma. She studied film at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (MFA 2001), and her video pieces have been shown in festivals like Kassel Documentary Film & Video Festival, Love & Anarchy (Helsinki International Film Festival) and Oberhausen Film Festival (2006).

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14 works

A letter from Liisi

Saloranta Elina
2021 / 00:07:52 / Single channel

A Letter from Elli

Saloranta Elina
2019 / 00:06:05 / Single channel

Transparencies from the Past

Saloranta Elina
2017 / 00:10:47 / Single channel

Voices of Consolation

Saloranta Elina
2014 / 00:09:30 / Single channel

Aamu

Saloranta Elina
2013 / 00:21:30 / Single channel

Do Not Disturb

Saloranta Elina
2006 / 00:07:40 / Single channel

Reflections in a window pane

Saloranta Elina
2012 / 00:14:30 / Single channel

Room (by Elina Saloranta)

Saloranta Elina
2008 / 00:09:00 / Single channel

Two rooms and a kitchen

Saloranta Elina
2010 / 00:14:30 / Single channel

Kitchen Conversations

Saloranta Elina
2006 / 00:13:14 / Single channel

The Lovers' Bed

Saloranta Elina
2004 / 00:18:35 / Single channel

Pure

Saloranta Elina
2002 / 00:29:40 / Single channel

Tango Lesson

Saloranta Elina
2007 / 00:04:00 / Single channel

Words Left Behind

Saloranta Elina
2005 / 00:09:20 / Single channel