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Vesitys (2024) Video installation by Henrietta Soininen & Usva Torkki was exhibited in Muutos.art-taidetalo in Tampere during the summer 2024 before the building was demolished.
Vesitys is a media artwork that invites you to reflect on the relationship between climate change, water systems and beauty.The installation creates the illusion of being underwater. You can lie down in the middle of the curtains and stay as long as you want.The installation asks, can an environmental disaster look beautiful? How could you talk about it in a way that makes people slow down and listen?The work combines an artistic and environmental journalistic approach. In a time of science denialism, art has the opportunity to strengthen the position of science and make the climate change debate more approachable.The video material seen in the installation was filmed in the lakes of Tampere during the spring of 2024. The sentences heard on the soundtrack have been excerpted from journalistic publications from the past year, read by author Pirkko Soininen. -
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Submarine self (2020) An assisted underwarter self portrait series.
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Pantyhose burqa (2015) seeks to raise questions about the sexualization of the female body. Performance & textil art.
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The missing trash bins - Los basureros desaparecidos (2014)
In Santiago de Chile a bomb was placed in a trash bin at Escuela Militar metro station (9/8/14) and the explosion left 15 people injured. After the incident all the trash bins in every metro station were removed. The government invoked the anti terrorist law and positioned police men at the busiest stations. In the beginning of September the price of a metro ticket was increased. A monthly ticket ended up reaching a 23% of the minimum wage causing people evade the fare. The name of the photoseries refers to those who disappeared during the dictatorship. In Chile there is a huge income inequality and the government has a history of excessive use of police force.
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The missing trash bins (2014)
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Sex workers (2014)
Prostitution is legal in Chile and buying the service as well. Most of the people working in the business are immigrants from countries such as Ecuador and Colombia. This is a series of portraits of sex workers I encountered on the streets of Santiago.
With the use of light I was able to grant my subjects some anonymity as they were worried that their families back in their countries of origin might recognize them and find out they had ended up working on the street. -
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Sex workers (2014)
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Skin color (2014) is a series of portraits which by exhibiting "skin colored" objects seeks to debate the use of the term "skin color" referring to a specific color when it is actually a concept that covers a large gamma of tones.
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Naturaleza muerta (2013) meaning still life translates directly as dead nature. This series of portraits is composed of analog double exposures.
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Efímero - Ephemeral (2013)
This is a documentation of a performance I carried out in a politically and historically charged street in Santiago (Chile). For about ten minutes I walked on burning hot pavement repeating the same circle over and over again, creating an ephemeral shape on the pavement. Later it was left to dry and disappear. During the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet people were tortured in a detention center located in this very same street. All in all, over 1 200 people were disappeared during the dictatorship. Video installation.
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Efímero (2013)
