These photograms are remnants of old VHS movies that had accumulated on my bookshelf over the years: TV recordings, fourth-generation copies taped by friends, mail-order rarities. All are inspired by violent sequences that had lingered in my mind. If the original film showed someone torturing a prisoner by scorching his chest with a blowtorch, I proceeded to do the same to the VHS cassette. If the hero smashed his head against a rock, I too would smash the tape with a rock. Next I gathered up the smashed pieces, scattered the plastic and metal debris across photo paper, and exposed it in a darkroom without a camera. Each photogram is named after the original film. (MT / translation: Silja Kudel)
- Strait-Jacket
- Sommerlek (Summer Interlude)
- Kiss Me Deadly
- Le feu follet (The Fire Within)
- Häxan (Witchcraft through the Ages)
- White Heat
- Kahdeksan surmanluotia (Eight Deadly Shots)
- Les yeux sans visage (Eyes Without a Face)
- The Incredible Shrinking Man
- Kid Speed a.k.a. The Four-Wheeled Terror
- Faster Pussycat Kill! Kill!
- La Haine (Hate)
- Le Peau douce (The Soft Skin)
- Honeymoon Killers
- Roma, città aperta (Rome, Open City)
- Out of the Past
All works are based on black & white movies from 1924-1995 recorded on VHS home video cassettes, then destroyed and reworked as photograms.
Photo book “Black and White Movies” published by Luova in 2018.
Selected shows:
- Damage/Control, Padiglione de l’Esprit Nouveau, Bologna, 2020
- Partial Head Clog, La Neomudéjar, Madrid, Spain, 2018
- Cleaning Tapes, Konsthallen, Sandviken, Sweden, 2017
- Memoria esterna, Artopia Rita Urso, Milan, Italy, 2017
- Action Films, balzer projects, Switzerland, 2016
- Blackout, Hämeenlinna Art Museum, Finland 2015–2016
- Post Script, de Gouvernestraat, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2014
- Aikakoneita – Time Machines, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland, 2013
- Tomorrow’s New Dawn, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, USA, 2013
