Nuutti Koskinen
Reforms in the Garden
11 November–4 December 2022
Reforms in the Garden is a three-channel video installation that examines the layered nature of a landscape and the phenomenology of the environment and history. The installation shows the natural cycle as a material, ideological and productional cycle of the living environment with its problem areas, structural changes and history of otherness.
To what extent do the mechanics of social and cultural changes resemble the change of scientific paradigms? We strive to understand things as if we were familiar with them, until we no longer understand them at all and our understanding has to form a new frame of reference. How does something culturally incomprehensible become self-evident or vice versa? How do the real – and especially imaginary – remains of the archaic community structure affect our relationships with each other and our environment?
Nuutti Koskinen is a Helsinki-based media artist who works with video, photography and animation. Recurring themes in his works include language use, metaphors and the semantics of visual representation, which is often applied to ecological and social issues.
