Maja
Halonen Henna-Riikka
Filmed in a snowy forest in Northern Finland, “Maja” refers to the painterly composition of the Nordic landscape painting tradition. It investigates an individual’s relation to nature through the characters in the forest, and asks how our surroundings alter us and are altered by us.
Production Year
2006
Duration
00:02:05
Asiasana
Original Title
Maja
Finnish Title
Maja
English Title
Maja
Production Countries
United Kingdom
Dialogue
No
Aspect Ratio
4:3
Sound
Yes
Cast
Henna-Riikka Halonen (Author), Henna-Riikka Halonen (Director)
Press Photos
Henna-Riikka Halonen’s works are often responses to a specific context or a site, aiming to highlight our need to structure experiences as fiction to gain an understanding of them. By creating speculative systems or worlds, her work explores our relationship to materials, objects, words, and living and non-living beings. Halonen has worked on and produced many collaborative and large- scale projects and commissions and has shown her work widely in international exhibitions and festivals such as Incheon Biennale of Women Artists, South-Korea, IFFR, Rotterdam, Hayward Gallery London, 2017, Biennale of Sydney 2014, Lilith Performance Studio. Malmo, Centre Pompidou, Paris etc and Gus Fisher Gallery, New Zealand. Halonen graduated with an MFA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths College, London in 2006. She completed a Doctorate at the Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki in 2020.
9 works