My Friend and Her Boyfriend
Oja Marjatta
The installation of My friend and her boyfriend consists of looping video projections, fluorescent text and UV light. The installation reflects on dream as an element of real encounters and human relations.
Production Year
1997
Tyyppi
Asiasana
body image, boyfriends, dreams (sleeping), encounter, fluorescence, gestures, human being, human relations, installations (works of art), light, love, media art, projection, texts, therapists, touch, ultraviolet radiation, video art, video installations
Original Title
Ystäväni ja hänen poikaystävänsä
Finnish Title
Ystäväni ja hänen poikaystävänsä
English Title
My Friend and Her Boyfriend
Production Countries
Finland
Dialogue
Yes
Aspect Ratio
4:3
Sound
No
Cast
Marjatta Oja (Author), Mark Lwoff (Cast), Tiina Kaukanen (Cast)
Press Photos
Marjatta Oja lives and works in Helsinki. She has studied in Free Art School in Helsinki, Accademia di Belle Arte in Milan and in the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, where she completed her doctoral studies in 2011. Oja uses different media, mainly photographs, videos and objects. She aims to infuse image with depth, liveliness and three-dimensionality into “situational sculptures”. The works of Oja have been presented in exhibitions and events since the late 1980s in Finland, Scandinavia, Europe, Asia and the USA.
25 works