Savu E. Korteniemi: Naarmankaira -installaatio

Completion year: 2017

Technique: wood, coloured shellac, 200 parts

Size: vaihtelee

Keywords: Savu Korteniemi, Naarmankaira, kulttuuri, luonto, maisema, kalapatsaat, kranaatit, installaatio

Could you see a tree as an art? Could that tree be a part of the culture? Whose culture?

Originally the word ”culture” refers to the agriculture. Via that etymological background, I see the connection between the conception of the western culture and (maximal) capitalizing of the land, which has created the conceptt of the ownership of the land. The Western way to understand culture as a relationship between capitalizing and ownership met very different cultural understanding of the use and ownership of land in Lapland. From the Western point of view, the culture leaves marks, and in Lapland these kind of marks didn’t exist. From the Western (or the South, as we tend to say in Lapland) point of view Lapland has been seen as a peripheral and virgin No Man’s Land. That’s why the major parts of Finnish Lapland are still state-owned.

I started to think the connection between the ”culture” and the ”nature”. I asked myself which kind of things are possible and visible within our culture. I started to think about trees. I drew trees and carved some new objects.

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