Jää sulaa / Ice Is Melting (2021)
Projection on partially disassembled linen fabric.

Jää sulaa / Ice Is Melting is build of images from the Kulkureitti / Route -series and sound work KYLÄ / Village. The images are projected onto a partially disassembled linen canvas in the form of a video.
The installation tells a story of the cycle of the village's year, the past and the uncertain future are intertwined with feelings of rootlessness in the city. Ice is melting and eventually water covers everything.
In the exhibition Kylä, B-gallery December 2021, the work was projected in front of the gallery window, so that the buzzing city's busiest street could be seen past it.
Link to a video ︎

Kulkureitti / Route

(2015-)

The photos of the series have been taken over the course of three days, in spring 2015. The ice of the Kem-river in the village of Panozero, Viena-Karelia, Russia, began to melt. After a long winter, a blue stripe opened in the middle of the white landscape.


The village is located on the river bank, behind the boat or ferry connection. but in the winter, you can drive across the ice, for example, by car.  At the time of rasputitsa, when ice is melting, but water is not yet free, the passage over the river stops for a while.


The melting of the ice is a recognizable subject in the picture, but the limiting image area to ice and water, and the repetition of the images, make the series at the same time documentary and abstract.