Vappu Jalonen

Safe Room

with Elis Hannikainen

Installation with sound and text and image projections

Secured – Politics of Bodies and Spaces, Vantaa Art Museum Artsi, part of Gathering for Rehearsing Hospitalities, Frame Contemporary Art Finland, 2021

 

Elis Hannikainen and Vappu Jalonen created a new artwork called Safe Room for the exhibition. The installation consists of sound, text and image projections as well as objects. It is in close relation to Vantaa Art Museum Artsi's black space, which differs architecturally from the rest of the exhibition space. The artwork is based on safe rooms, which are built in private or public spaces because of real or imagined external threats. The work examines the difficult nature of security and safety as concepts and safety as a personal experience. What is the relationship with space and being in the museum: what do you need, what do you want to do now?

In Safe Room, the artists continue to explore issues of everyday bodily experiences, means of support and questions of power.

 

Sound design: Kaino Wennerstrand
Reader: Teo Ala-Ruona
Language advice: Katie Lenanton