Intervention II: Cotton
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Riikka Kupsala: Intervention II: Cotton

Completion year: 2022
Technique: One channel video and handwashed used cotton pads
Size: 00:23:44, stereo, vaihteleva koko
Keywords: Riikka Kupsala, kuluttaminen, ylikulutus, elinkaari, esineet, rutiinit, puuvilla






This artwork consists of a two channel video and a pile of cotton pads which have transformed into cotton wool in the process of handwash. In order to create this work I photographed dirty cotton pads which I had used in removing make-up, and then I recorded the process of washing and drying these cotton pads. This act was an intervention to the conventional way to use cotton pads. Usually I draw a cotton pad from a package, use it for removing make-up off my face and toss it into a bin without pondering the origin and lifecycle of the cotton in the pads. Instead of this I used cotton pads as a subject and material in an artwork. This artwork draws attention into the consumption of daily commodities and the waste of disposables.

In this artwork pictures of dirty cotton pads are shifting slowly and used cotton pads are washed and dried in a two channel video. A pile of fragmented cotton pads are on a pedestal in front of the video. The audio of the video is based on the natural sound from processing the used cotton pads.





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