Single channel video installation
Projection on a wooden round screen
Year: 2020
Duration: 5’32 min
A video collage about biodiversity, made entirely from free online material. Time-lapse animated blooming flowers are forming new shapes due to the mirror effect enforced on them, accompanied by a soundtrack composed out of sounds of rainforests, birds, crickets and other insects and endangered species such as the roars of gorillas, accompanied with a heartbeat creating a backbone to the score.
On the one hand, the work admires the beauty, diversity, sensuality and fragility of nature, as well as it on the other hand mourns the current loss in biodiversity and our often instrumental relation to nature.
Blossom has been on display at
- Oudon äärellä, media art for kids, curated by students of Annantalo
- While we forget, a group exhibition with Azar Saiyar and Ida Palojärvi at Kurantvisningsrom, Tromsö, Norway, 24.8. – 8.9. 2019
- Espoo Visual Festival, 2019
- An early version of the work was on exhibit at Forum Box gallery, 2018
Watch
Blossom is distributed via AV-Arkki and can also be wathed below via Vimeo
