MIDDLETONS – Photographs from California and SALTY SNOW – A film and woven patterns
Maarit Suomi-Väänänen
Yard Studio
14.06.2008-07.09.2008

The works of the Finnish media artist Maarit Suomi-Väänänen (b. 1966) are sensual and fascinating. The glittering seascape in the film Salty Snow creates a backdrop for a story about womanhood. The web of hopes, disappointments and longing is fragile and vulnerable. In Middletons, hydrants by the side of the road are endowed with a soul. Where one is lost on its way to first day at school, another has already learned to make graffiti. The works share a common concern with child and childhood, abandonment and longing.

script, camera, editing, directing, and knitwork: Maarit Suomi-Väänänen / composing, music RADIOTON: Tapani Rinne and Verneri Lumi / performers: Sanna Hedström, Ville Väänänen / sound design and mixing Kyösti Väntänen / 5.1. music mixing: Pauli Saastamoinen / online editing: Heikki Kotsalo / translations: Arja Kantele / colorist: Inka Ruohela, Generator Post / online editing: Heikki Kotsalo, Parastus / grip, lights: Ville Väänänen / producer: Maarit Suomi-Väänänen / executive producer: Auli Mantila, Aamu Oy

thanks: Finnish Cultural Foundation Satakunta Regional Fund, AVEK, YLE, Arts Council of Finland, Visek, Taik Pori Faculty, ITU, Medusa

thanks: Finnish Cultural Foundation Satakunta Regional Fund, AVEK, YLE, Arts Council of Finland, Visek, Taik Pori Faculty, ITU, Medusa