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Date 04-0202-0000-9999-9896-9594| 'SOMETHING STRANGE', TORNIO, FINLAND, 2004
“Something Strange” was a group exhibition of work made in response to the specific location and context of the Aine Art Museum, Tornio, Finland. 13 artists made work exploring the notion of imaginary cultural space and speculation – creating site-specific responses to notions of Finland, Tornio and Northern Europe. 
Large scale digitally manipulated photographic image presented as a suspended cylinder in the centre of the exhibition space. The work explores the depiction of an apparently infinite ocean in terms of its experiential, political and metaphorical potential, when sited in a nation whose current geo-political borders form only one coast, that of a partly-frozen inland sea. In an enormous photograph, an apparently featureless seascape wraps around itself, merging seamlessly on the far side of a large column. It’s edges push at the limits of peripheral vision; at eye level the sea’s upper edge forms the horizon, the sky butts up against the ceiling, and sand settles down to the floor. The image becomes a container, an illusion of perspective that allows the enormity of the ocean to become encircled by its own shore: The infinite to become an island, bound by a strip of land. |