The video installation Tuhkimontie 10 depicts the renovation of a 1950’s apartment building in an Eastern suburb of Helsinki. The 10-channel video work follows views from the interior to the exterior in four apartments for the duration of two years. Weather and seasons outside evolve in parallel with the progress of renovation inside. During the work, the interior surfaces of the building are peeled revealing materials last visible at the time of construction.
Photo from:https://forumbox.fi/en/exhibition/in-a-time-of-chimpanzees-i-was-a-monkey/
Roihuvuori represents the first wave of suburban growth in Helsinki and, as such, is important in the history of architecture and urban planning in Finland. Tuhkimontie 10, designed by the architects Tarja Salmio-Toiviainen and Esko Toiviainen, completed in 1955, is a ‘serpentine house’ curving its way along the street with a total of nine stairways. Myllylä lives opposite the building, therefore the video work depicts also her own everyday environment.
Structured framing of the environment provided by the window grid of the building intrigued Myllylä. Having looked at the building from outside for years, she temporarily had access to the apartments and could look at her living environment from the points of view of others. When filming time-lapse sequences from a fixed camera position the framing of the image is speculative: one sets the limits of the image and waits for something to happen.
Galerii nimi: Forum Box
Aadress: Ruoholahdenranta 3A, Helsinki, Finland
Lahtiolekuajad: T-P 12:00 - 17:00
Avatud: 13.12.2024 — 12.01.2025
Kunsti liigid: Segatehnika
Aadress: Ruoholahdenranta 3A, Helsinki, Finland
Lahtiolekuajad: T-P 12:00 - 17:00
Avatud: 13.12.2024 — 12.01.2025