The project focuses on working with site-specific interventions and installations in nature and forest of Ostrobothnia, which will also be visual material for the art film 'Fall'. The body of work will also include experimental poetry/writing, performance, mixed media art and sound works in collaboration with Stefan Backas and Annika Sillander.

 

The aim is to temporarily cover natural elements (such as fallen trees, boulders) with a membrane of organic translucent material, entirely capturing their plasticity and textures, symbolically recalling a skin-chrysalis. Through a performative act the artist will peel back the shell, freeing the entity. Sculptures of pale thread will interact with them, spreading along the ground and intersect with the surrounding elements and roots of fallen trees, depicting man's fears, contradictions and vices, or connected to primordiality.

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A moment of personal reflection on human condition and co-existence while investigating the land, discerning from the self and drawing inspiration from the connection with nature, across art. Finding resonance and re-discovering oneself in other beings and things.

Awareness in encountering entities and eliciting expression through them, projecting true change not far from our will in the exploration of the inner sphere, and recognising that the holistic change we desire must start from us, which does not happen without strain and personal resolve.

Introspections that lead to inner dynamics, culminating in cathartic moments of active transformation in symbiosis. ​​​​A constantly evolving state of consciousness, interpenetrating the other, or rather acknowledging the other within ourselves... redefining our conception of what it means to be human.

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The project also includes temporary exhibition of multidisciplinary works in the forest, along a nature trail. Some installations will be re-proposed directly from the art film, others will be new. The artistic result will be an intersection of different artistic disciplines, such as painting, sculpture, textile, material, resulting in mixed media visual installations.

This phase of the project is planned in Öjen forest for spring 2027, and in connection with the open-air exhibition, the new art film will be premiered in the end of 2026, in collaboration with Vaasa Museums.

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The project takes inspiration from the duo exhibition 'Dripping Cavities', and the projects 'The Grey Hour' by Valentina Gelain & 'Scanning Landscape' by Bekim Hasaj.

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In the project are also used  bioplastic and recycled paper.

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The art project is supported by Svensk-Österbottniska Samfundet & Arts Promotion Centre-Taike.

Collaborators in the project are the city of Vaasa and the Vaasa Museums.

Thank you to Bergö Öråd, Maalahti/Malax Municipality and Westerlunds Fils O Transport Ab.

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