Antti-Ville Reinikainen: Surupuku / Mourning Costume

The whole installation is a combination of several separate works. It is based on a study on the life of my great-grandmother Aili Vihantola (1907-2007).

"Mourning Costume":

There is large "female" figure built from old womens' blazers with an egg-like projection screen in its belly. The projection footage is transferred from inside of miniature house. There is a small surveillance camera in one of the rooms. Small figures that are cut out of old family albums are rotating the house. The egg like projection is a view towards those shadowy, blurry images passing by, filling the screen with their endless movement.

In the wall of the space there are two blown-up old photographs with heads and hands cut out.

"The Glass Walls of the Rectory":

In the bottom of glass water tank there is miniature table and chairs. Pieces of rock are keeping these pieces of furniture in the bottom of the water. There is a pile of rocks in a form of house on the table.

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