The Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art will attend Turku 2011 with its own two-part production in cooperation with the Kiasma Foundation. The production showcases two centrepieces of the Kiasma media collection: Eija-Liisa Ahtila’s video installation WHERE IS WHERE? - MISSÄ ON MISSÄ?, 2008 and Isaac Julien’s video installation WESTERN UNION: Small Boats, 2007.
The pieces are connected by the history of colonialism in Europe. Isaac Julien’s video installation highlights illegal migration around the Mediterranean in a visual and poetic manner. In the work, refugees driven by war and famine travel by boat from Libya to Sicily seeking a better life.
This is the premiere for both large-scale installations. The works will be presented one after the other in Turku during 2011. The Kiasma exhibition is thematically linked to the Africa theme of the ARS11 Exhibition.
June 17th - December 18th Isaac Julien: Western Union: Small Boats
January 16th - May 29th Eija-Liisa Ahtila: Where is Where? - Missä on missä?
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