Mourning costume

This installation is a combination of several separate works that form connected wholeness. It is based on a study on the life of my great-grandmother Aili Vihantola (1907-2007).

"Mourning Costume":

There is large "female" figure built from old womens' blazers with an egg-like projection screen in its belly. The projection footage is coming from inside a miniature house, a camera shooting outside of a window. Small glossy picture-like figures that are cut out of old family albums are rotating the house. The egg like projection is these shadowy, blurry images passing by, filling the screen with their endless movement.

In the wall of the space there are two blown-up photographs with heads and hands cut out.

"The Glass Walls of the Rectory":

In the bottom of glass water tank there is miniature table and chairs. Pieces of rock are keeping these pieces of furniture in the bottom of the water. There is a pile of rocks in a form of house on the table.

Layers of absence - series

Oil on canvas

Eight paintings.