"Passage"
Irene Suosalo
Finland
West Torggatan
Irene Suosalo is a video artist and VJ (Visual Jockey) in the Helsinki club scene. Her artistic practice intuitively experiments with old and new animation methods, both analogue and digital. During this process, a scanned image goes through a variety of animation phases. She plays with different interventions to mould the original composition into something surprising. ‘Passage’ visualises the evolution of ten fictional landscapes, inspired by old children's animations from Russia and the Czech Republic, and Walt Disney.
The immersive landscape she created for the old Snow White clothing store moves with the viewer, appearing and disappearing as the viewer passes, by car or on foot.
www.irenesuosalo.com
"Skuggspel med Konversationsfigurer"
Ekstedt/Andersson
Sweden
Ekstedt/Andersson is testing both ideas and objects. ‘We have big ideas. We add and subtract. We relate to the contemporary discussion with restraint. Sometimes bombastic, sometimes modestly moving. We take up the whole room and listen to everything. The poetic emerges by chance when the chaos takes shape as sound and image fill both head and body to the brim. One is warmed by the feeling of seeing something. Not the truth but the warmth, everything is complex, everything is empty. Starting over, we try out ideas and objects. The magnificent lurks in the reeds.’
"Stadens Hjärta"
Lin de Mol
Netherlands/Sweden
Hamngatan 11
For Arvika Ljus! 2020, Lin de Mol projects one of his drawings on the back of a building bordering a car park. A dark corner of the city becomes a drive-in cinema for a 9-metre high still image: the heart of the city.
‘Drawing for me is a way of carefully observing and getting to know a thing or an object. To understand it and to never forget it. As for the heart: I think it's a good idea to never forget your heart; where it is placed, the size of it and what it does. Especially in these times.
I build a drawing with endless fine lines until shape and volume emerge: it’s like a meditation. Most of my drawings no longer exist. They were drawn with Bic pens, using ink that isn’t light-resistant. It’s interesting to think that what destroyed this drawing is now what gives it life.
www.lindemol.com
