Maija Timonen
dal 23/1/2013 al 25/1/2013
Segnalato da
23/1/2013
Maija Timonen
The Showroom, London
Screening film: "Aune, or On Effective Demise"
The Showroom presents the first London screening of Finnish artist Maija Timonen's latest film Aune, or On Effective Demise (2013, 57 mins). The film will be introduced by the artist and screened at 7pm, 24 January. Following this evening premiere, the film will be screened on the hour, from 12-6pm, on Friday 25 and Saturday 26 January. A publication that accompanies the film will also be available to buy (exhibition price 7pounds). Aune is a 19th century girl confined to her bed, living under the threat of amputation. She has dreams of a park that are both premonitions of the future and the site in which its absence is played out. An escalating sense of timelessness collapses Aune's two realities, as her body takes on significance as a cipher of a larger process of dismemberment. A love story turns into a film about sex, death and the economy. The film is a loose adaptation of 1896 novel Aune by Finnish writer Immi Hellen.