CUT / STACCATO
Project for the Finnish Pavilion, Venice Biennial 2019
shortlisted 2018
CUT was developed as part of the Open Call for the Finnish Pavilion, Biennale di Venezia 2019, by Salla Tykkä (Europe/Europa) and Ilona Ruegg (Staccato), as two interconnected individual projects. The works are based on a strong shared interest in the processes of editing and montage, of rhythm and repetition. While Salla Tykkä worked on a film project, I used the pavilion as existing material and its architectural history. - The project was shortlisted.
STACCATO (proposal)
Starting from the possibility of dismantling, conceived by Alvar Aalto in 1956 but then lost, I wanted to repeat this gesture, i.e. to reproduce all the parts of the pavilion in order to build with them in a disassembled way inside the original pavilion another fragmented structure - a house within a house. A space of representation is transformed by inhabiting itself and offering new dimensions and multiple functions. The traversal of the pavilion with itself inserts a second nature, in a state of dissolution, yet offering refuge, shelter, stay and passage. The fragmented structure, can be read in relation to the original pavilion and trigger a contradictory sense of déjà vu for the visitor. The experience of an in-between becomes possible: inside and outside are confused. This creates a situation of radical closeness, where the sides become difficult to distinguish, as we know it from dreams or imagination, for example. A coherent sensory perception of space, which we usually count on, is interrupted. I am interested in such deviations, starting from the given, not to get elsewhere, but rather into the same. It can change everything I knew before and write new possibilities into the present.
Opencall 2017, shortlisted 2018
Collaboration with Sandra Oehy, Curator Zurich and Salla Tykkä, Künstlerin, Helsinki.
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