LÄTÄKÖT JOILLA ON KIILTÄVÄT PINNAT KIILTÄVÄT KIRKKAANPUNAISESSA VALOSSA

A work consisting of three books. The three books are connected together by themes related to language and by the feeling of silence in them. The form of book creates an expectation of a story. Each book contains an attempt to tell about an experience but in the end all the books keep silent. By keeping the stories untold I want to raise questions about the importance of one's own mother language and also questions about language barriers and understanding. I also want to bring forth the strange silent language of photography that shows but doesn't tell.

Cristian (from Santiago to Helsinki) (2015)

The book shows 300 photographs of a man telling his story in front of the camera. The photos are shot in fast continuous shooting so that when the book is leafed through they form a moving image where he speaks but no words are heard.

Kraków (2015)

The same piece of text in the Polish language is repeated in every page. Starting in the page two, words have been cut out of the pages little by little so that in the end only two words remain. The cut out words are mistakes - wrong, uncorrect or misspelled words and phrases. At the end of the book there are extracts that explain the background of the work.

"I traveled by train and looked at the view. In my notebook I wrote about the light, the morning, the roofs of the houses, the shipping containers and the horizon. I took mute photographs and listened to the strange language. After flying back home I borrowed a dictionary and a grammar book from the library and started to translate the text I had written in my notebook into Polish, word by word, case by case, searching for the correct body. After that I gave my translation to Boleslaw, who promised to correct the mistakes in my translation, and to an official translator, Malgorzata, who translated my translation back into Finnish so that I could see how much I managed to say."

Translators' comments and notes.

Aanaarjävri (2015)

A photo book of a trip to to the Lake Inari to the home of the endangered language of Inari Sami. With no text in the book at all the photographs attempt to tell about the trip as if this endangered language had already vanished and there was no words but only that what can be seen.