Maarit Suomi-Väänänen

Maarit Suomi-Väänänen

Maarit Suomi-Väänänen

Film is the central art form for film director and media artist Maarit Suomi-Väänänen. Her work also encompasses photography and installations, including the immaterial such as smoke and light. Praised as fascinating and open to a multitude of interpretations, Suomi-Väänänen’s works have toured from San Fransisco to Hanti-Mansisjk, appearing in exhibitions, at festivals and on television. Suomi-Väänänen has world-wide-sales agent Ouat Media Inc. in Toronto, Canada.

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Work presented:

Maarit Suomi-Väänänen

UP AND ABOUT AGAIN

is an experimental film about negotiating the road of life.

Maarit Suomi-Väänänen

Salty Snow

thematises the yearning for a child. The film reflects on the innate human need to breed, to create things new.

Works

Neon

Neon is an aesthetic experiment tailored to a sound performance of Marko Timlin, by using neon lights.

H2O

This video is a symbolic reminder of water’s uneven distribution that is likely to cause even more disruption and suffering in the future.

YLÖ

This dichotomous video attempts to suspend time so as to produce a feeling of elevation.

infraa

My intention was to create a silent and hypnotic work as a rare experience.

TRUST

In “Trust” we are presented with four young women in a snow-clad forest.
They are seemingly seeking their way through the trees…. Mariken Kramer.

Sound of the Sun

Sound of the Sun

This is an ongoing series of works, a retelling of three generations of family members’ experiences within a physical and political landscape.

beachoma

Two similar photographs of tourists on the beach sunbathing make up this video.

Salty Snow

Salty Snow thematises the yearning for a child. The film reflects on the innate human need to breed, to create things new. Maarit Suomi-Väänänen

Photosynthesis

The loop cycles through 4 shots of a single event, the illumination of a tree by a set of massive spot lights.

exosphere

Nothnagel`s typical alienation effect and the color blue creates an artifical world. © Judith Nothnagel, D, 2008

13 Buildings

In 13 Buildings, locative habitats become the topic of a conversation between two people united as friends but who are philosophically opposed.

Quasi-Objects/Cinematic N.07

Quasi-Objects/Cinematic N.07

A practice of organic re-design that aims to stimulate thought and dialogue