Description

Kolari is the northernmost railway station in Finland. It is located in Lapland, 86 km closer to the pole than the border of the Arctic Circle. The more remote areas of the country are only accessible by air.

The journey from Helsinki Central Station takes 14 hours, and during this time the train travels a distance of 798 km. I arrived in Kolari on the night train on November 22, 2012. The daylight lasted four and a half hours. I was in town from 10:54 to 18.50, and then drove back.

The series appeared as an attempt to redirect attention to extreme points, to perform centrifugal movement in the broad sense. Through travel-based practice, it addresses questions about the effects of individual choice, the possibility of identification with place and the significance of locality.

«My focus lies on the concept of the research that follows from my astronomical background. It is driven by curiosity and lack of knowledge of something, and that’s important. The main topics I work with are the boundaries and transferring personal experience to the public space, various forms of everyday life, as well as communication in the era of social networks and global digital platforms. I investigate both content and new ways to interact with reality. Also important audience reaction, experiments with form, the process of cognition the world. Any daily activity may become an object of research. My intention is to apply the known means to something unfamiliar, some phenomena which are aimed to go beyond the usual language or known representation. As an artist, I’m interested in the unpredictability/paradoxicality of the final result of my research.»