Nastja Säde Rönkkö‘s works are now also distributed by The Inter Media Art Institute (IMAI). Founded in 2006, its archive includes around 3,000 works of artistic and documentary value that offer a broad overview of the evolution of video art from its pioneer era in the 1960s to the present.

Nastja Säde Rönkkö (b. 1985) is an artist living in London and Helsinki. She works with video, performance, installation, participatory art, internet and text. She has exhibited and performed internationally in places such as Somerset House, London, Sydney Opera House, Sydney, SXSW, Austin, TX, Royal Academy of Arts, London, FACT, Foundation for Art and Technology, Liverpool and Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki. Recent solo exhibitions include for those yet to be, EMMA Museum of Modern Art, Espoo, Finland (2020), Altered Breaths, Future Feelings at Tampere Art Museum, Finland and for your charred bones and restless soul, Aboa Vetus, Art Nova, Turku, Finland (2019). She is the 35th recipient of the Young Artist of the Year 2019 title and award.

Nastja Säde Rönkkö’s latest work salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears (featured image) takes its starting point from a commonly held – yet incorrect – belief that blood contains the same amount of salt as sea water. Three narrators – a teardrop, a drop of Golden blood and a droplet of sweat – tell their own stories of love and loss. The video is driven by a poetic text: an intimate verse with an ambiguity that delivers a metanarrative for lost and found identity, a scarred planet and our ever-changing world.

AV-arkki and Light Cone are part of DINAMO – Distribution Network of Artists’ Moving Image Organizations.