Henna-Riikka Halonen’s film Tissue is included in LABOCINE’s June 2025 issue MICROGRAPHIA. The curatorial lens draws inspiration from Micrographia, Robert Hooke’s 1665 masterpiece—the first book to depict the microscopic world through both scientific observation and artistic illustration. Introducing the term “cell,” Hooke forever changed our relationship to the invisible, fusing rigorous inquiry with visual wonder.

In Tissue (2022), series of long takes guide us from a fictional prosthetic factory through the nostril, skin and tissue to the nervous system and into the cell. The modified 3D model of an animal cell becomes a strange world inhabited by different living and non-living organisms. Here, we see the body simultaneously as a self-contained and porous multi-species organism and a site of conflict.

Henna-Riikka Halonen lives and works in Helsinki, Finland. She graduated with BA from Limerick School of Art and Design, Ireland in 2002 and with MFA from Goldsmiths College in London in 2006. She is currently undertaking doctoral studies in the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki. Her work has been seen in various exhibitions, biennales and festivals worldwide, such as Sydney Biennale 2014, Eyebeam in New York (2013), Gallery Factory in Seoul, Korea (2012), Transmediale 2012 in Berlin, Berwick Gymnasium Gallery in the UK (2010), Collective Gallery in Edinburgh, Scotland (2009) and International Incheon Women Artstis’ Biennale in Korea (2007).

LABOCINE
June 2025 issue MICROGRAPHIA
June 1-30, 2025

More information: LABOCINE – MICROGRAPHIA

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