Octomom
Octomom (2023) is an installation that combines an audio story and video footage of a brooding octopus, who guarded her eggs for almost five years at the bottom of the ocean, with a portrait of a mother with her newborn. The video is projected onto fine grained sand on the floor.
Exhibitions:
Kana Kawanishi gallery, Tokyo, Japan (coming February 2025).
15th Gwangju Biennale, Finland Pavilion, South Korea (coming September 2024).
Turku Art Museum, Turku, Finland, 2024.
Finnish Institute in Stockholm’s gallery, Stockholm, Sweden 2023.
Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland 2023.
The research of the artwork was helped by Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) and Senior Scientist Bruce Robison.