Mountebank

A mirror piece-covered trailer with bright blinking lights on its door. Inside there is mummified squirrell, empty bottles and footage projected from several surveillance cameras.

The trailer is trap-like creation, menacing construction that is designed to attract people close to its presence so it can steal their souls into bottles. It is combination of freak-show and reflection on differences between tolerant and fundamentalist attitudes. The mummified sqirrell is embodiment of horror of death. It's a tool, another bait for individuals' fundamental self-reflective needs.

Picture footage first from Jetty Barracks Gallery (first version with proper lights) and then from Taidehalli, Helsinki (improved vesion with worse enviroment).

The mummified squirrell was damaged during this latter building of "the mountebank" so this was its last venue before the final use which will be something completely different.