Ylpeydellä kauneudella vääryydellä viekkaudellaANIMATION/FILM, 2023 Ylpeydellä kauneudella vääryydellä viekkaudella (With Pride Beauty Injustice Slyness) is an animated work based on archival photographs. The work was produced for the retrospective exhibition of the Finnish sculptor Wäinö Aaltonen (1894–1966) in Tampere Art Museum. The work deals with the contradictions and pain points of building a national identity and the [...]
GranularFILM, 2019 Granular is a fictional video work, a reconstructed travel documentary. Footage and local stories from the archipelagos in Finland and Taiwan are intertwined with other semantic granules of the contemporary world. In the work a visit into a post-human island world is haunted by broken memories of the past. Beyond the fragmented stories, [...]
Talk About SocietyVIDEO INSTALLATION, 2018 FILM, 2019 Talk About Society is a video work combining video images and photography-based animation. The underlying theme is the various ways and metaphors used to discuss about the society, or the state. Authoritarity, nostalgy, hubris, pessimism and grassroots democracy are symbolically represented and intertwined in the film. The three [...]
Seeing Black CowsANIMATION, 2014 Seeing Black Cows is an animated short film. The name is derived from a metaphor "the night in which all cows are black", coined by Hegel to criticize the philosophy of romanticism. The black cows represent something in the threshold of our perception: a kind of indefinable, inseparable otherness, rejected by [...]
