i am
2026 - ongoing
Multi-channel video and sound installation, Performance
The artist sending signals as lighthouses in multiple islands across geographical borders.
through encoded frequencies of light and voice.
What pierces the prolonged darkness to bridge political and geographical territories? In a world fractured by divided narratives and deteriorating languages, how does a raw signal sustain existence? The transmission reduces to fundamental frequencies: light and the human voice.
i am constitutes an ongoing multimedia intervention of multi-channel video-sound installation, photographic installation and live performance.
The artist, using their body and voice, performs as lighthouses, filmed across multiple islands across territorial borders and transcontinental margins: from Finland, Greenland, and Iceland to the Scottish and Irish archipelagos, Svalbard, and China. In each location, the artist rotates while chanting a repetitive syllable and projecting light, following a frequency translated from lighthouse signaling encoded using the Morse code translation (.. / .- --) of the phrase “I am," transforming the physical body and voice into a primitive communication apparatus.
Within the exhibition space, these dispersed geographic nodes converge in synchronized lights and voices, intersecting across distance and time in a polyphonic environment.
The work is presented as a solo exhibition commissioned by the Fruitmarket Gallery (UK) and the Finnish Institute in the UK and Ireland 2026-2027.
Open Studio, Nordic Culture Point B28 Residency, 2026
Work in Progress (March 2026 - ongoing)
The work was conceptualised at Saari Residence, Kone Foundation (Jan–Feb 2026), and started filming on Suomenlinna, during B28 Residence, Nordic Culture Point (March 2026 -), Finland and Greenland supported by NAPA (Noridc Institute in Greenland), and will further be developed in other islands across borders in 2026, which will be concluded as a multi-channel video-sound installation and image series.
Suomenlinna, Finland, 2026
Sisimiut, Nuuk, Illulisat, Greenland, 2026