salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears

Rönkkö Nastja Säde

salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears 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. 

Production Year
2024
Duration
00:13:59
Tyyppi
Asiasana
Original Title
salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears
English Title

salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears

Production Countries
Finland,United Kingdom
Dialogue
Yes
Sound
Yes
Cast
Nastja Säde Rönkkö (Author), Aake Kivalo (Cinematographer), Mikko Maijala (Composer), Nastja Säde Rönkkö (Director), Heli Kota (Editor), Luke Turner (Editor), Mikko Maijala (Sound Design)
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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. Forthcoming projects include Glasgow International ja XXV Mänttä Art Festival 2021.

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