Jenni Haili: Dread

Completion year: 2008

Technique: video installation

Size: DV-PAL, 4:3, stereo, 03:03min

Coincidence and destiny brought two women (Jenni Haili and Jenni Gästgivar) together. They became aware, that they share more than just a similar appearance. Their near past had been transformed through similar small and large events. The piece includes visiting cards that list these assimulitudes.

In the videos the women give up their physical resemblance by cutting of their dread locked hair and through this they end up continuing their lives in completely diffrent dircetions. The piece tells about destiny and the dread of loosing ones lifes’ individuality.

Two channel videoinstallation, projection on opposite sides of a canvas hanging in the space (approximately 80 x 60cm)

Performers: Jenni Gästgivar, Jenni Haili
Music: Marika Hyvärinen

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