Selected works
Installation stills from Kluuvi gallery of Helsinki City Art Museum
Clean Air combines aerial views of Helsinki with a soundtrack consisting of recorded breathing sounds of 30 immigrants living in the city.
Clean Air combines aerial views of Helsinki with a soundtrack consisting
of recorded breathing sounds of 30 immigrants living in the city. This simple
juxtaposition describes the experience of being an outsider. In the summer
of 2002 Helsinki advertised itself as the capital with the cleanest air in
Europe . This video installation makes an overt reference to this statement,
which could also be interpreted as a manifestation of the non-mixed, almost
exclusively white, ethnic “purity” of the Finnish territory. The
installation includes an audio CD on which these people say their names. The
intimacy of breathing and self-identification by saying one’s name accompany
the vast city views. These views are open for the all-seeing lens of the camera,
yet it is difficult to recognize the landscapes disappearing and reappearing
from the clouds. The gaze above the city closes itself into a continuous panning
movement.
Video installation. S16 mm color film transferred to DVD. Duration 8 minutes. Sound surround 5.1 and audio CD (stereo). Dimensions variable. Sound by Antoine Verhaverbeke. Sound technician Gaetan Lorho.
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Video installation. S16 mm color film transferred to DVD. Duration 8 minutes. Sound surround 5.1 and audio CD (stereo). Dimensions variable. Sound by Antoine Verhaverbeke. Sound technician Gaetan Lorho.
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