Oloseutu
2024
ceramics, glass, sand, bronze, water, chipboard
photos by Meri Hallenberg, Veera Lakovaara / Oulu Art Museum
"Oloseutu" navigates a mental landscape where parallel realities intertwine. A landscape that appears as a layering of mental and physical conditions. A landscape where the borders of citizenship defined on the basis of maps blur and become one.
Water is the world's memory and messenger, circulating from one form of being and one creature to another. In this place, the water circulates in my fjords, freezes and dries up. This is where warm and cool currents meet. Cleaning the emotional residue and at the same time nourishing the new. A naval flower rising from the ground.
The work reflects the relationship between national identity and landscape from my Finnish-Congolese background. Throughout history, the landscape has been utilized in the construction of national identity, such as in 19th century Finland that strived for independence. Could new landscapes reveal new ideas about what nationality could be?
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Water is the world's memory and messenger, circulating from one form of being and one creature to another. In this place, the water circulates in my fjords, freezes and dries up. This is where warm and cool currents meet. Cleaning the emotional residue and at the same time nourishing the new. A naval flower rising from the ground.
The work reflects the relationship between national identity and landscape from my Finnish-Congolese background. Throughout history, the landscape has been utilized in the construction of national identity, such as in 19th century Finland that strived for independence. Could new landscapes reveal new ideas about what nationality could be?
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