Bond
Suoniemi Minna
Bond portrays a mother and a son in what appears to be a wrestling bond that the mother repeatedly attempts to escape without succeeding. Closeness and battle intertwine in the protagonists’ bodily struggle. In her work, Suoniemi draws parallels with the bodily, psychological and societal bonds between and within her protagonists and sets them in the continuation of historical mother and child images. Here, teenage and menopausal bodies tormented with hormonal changes negotiate their co-existence.
Production Year
2022
Duration
00:05:10
Tyyppi
Asiasana
animal sounds, battles, body, children (family members), family relations, human relations, intimacy, martial arts, moderskap, mothers, parenthood, puberty, wrestling
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Side
Finnish Title
Side
English Title
Bond
Production Countries
Finland
Dialogue
No
Sound
Yes
Cast
Minna Suoniemi (Author), Minna Suoniemi (Cinematographer), Minna Suoniemi (Director), Minna Suoniemi (Editor), Minna Suoniemi (Script), Minna Suoniemi (Sound Design), Valto Ala-Maunus (Actor), Minna Suoniemi (Actor)
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Minna Suoniemi (b. 1972) is a Helsinki-based artist working with moving image and video installation. She's interested in how disruption and failure can make normative structures and models visible and has worked on loaded subjects such as gender roles, motherhood and power relations. She has exhibited internationally in Europe, United States, South America and Asia including Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma in Helsinki, Preus Museum of Photography in Norway, 2nd International Festival for Photography and Video in Seoul and Moscow Biennial for young art, and her work is in Collections of major Finnish Art Museums. Suoniemi is a member of The Finnish State audiovisual Art Committee and works as a lecturer in Aalto University, Department of Art.
24 works