Room (by Elina Saloranta)
Elina Saloranta
The video work records the changes that took place in a bedroom after the death of a woman who lived there. The work begins with the text: “After the mother died, it took six months to sell the flat. The daughter went there once a week to have a cup of coffee.” Slowly changing images follow. The first picture shows the room untouched, only the bed linen has been removed. Little by little, the space gets emptier until only one piece of furniture is left: an enormous old-fashioned double bed. At the end, it's surrounded by the belongings of the new inhabitants. On the soundtrack we hear footsteps, the clinking of a coffee cup and the whirring of an old vacuum cleaner. When a protective plastic cover is thrown over the bed, the vacuum cleaner slowly fades out, as if breathing.
Elina Saloranta
Born: 1968
13 works