Installations and paintings

Exhibitions 2006

Hybridea - city art project, Helsinki

Limo Wreck

A group of people are riding around the city of Helsinki in a limousine. The central character is filmed by the other people by video and still cameras.

The car drives a certain route around the city. It stops in some places and by each stop the central character - dressed in a black suit and white mask - steps out. He then walks to a certain spot and plants a plastic flower to the ground and goes back to the car.


















Life as Weeds

A process of collecting a small weeds growing midst the concrete and stones of the streets of Helsinki.

Each weed is carefully collected into a wet fabric and then its roots are folded inside a golden paper.

What is the role of saviour but merely a selfish hypocrite? As the gatherer is supposebly giving the plant a better future, the change of environment and efforts of nurturing them proved ineffective. All of the weeds died within weeks after "the saving". On the other hand the plants that were collected would not have survived long in the harsh environment they were growing in.
























How to Disappear Completely

Still pictures and custom-made suit.

A character is wearing a custom made, grey jumpsuit. All of the holes of the suit are equipped with a zipper so the character can close himself from the surrounding enivonment.

The location of perpratior of violence is hard to perceive as the general will to self-destruction can be the most crushing violence. Also the question is whether violent character results from deep inclination to self-destruction.