True Finn – Tosi suomalainen, 2014
1 channel video and sound installation
50 min.
edition 2/5 + 2 A.P.
Exhibitions
2014 True Finn- Tosi Suomalainen, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2014 IHME festival, Helsinki, Finland
Literature
2015, "Yael Bartana, Capitain Petzel, Berlin", Art Agenda
2015, "Yael Bartana, Petzel", Artforum
2014, "Portfolio, Yael Bartana", Modern Painters
In "True Finn" Yael Bartana takes up a highly topical issue. She asks: How does national identity operate as a means of inclusion and exclusion? What mechanisms exist for this in Finland? Can an immigrant become a true Finn?
Yael Bartana invited people living in Finland and with different ethnic, religious and political backgrounds to take part in creating a utopian moment in Finland. What happens when they live together seven days and determine themselves through the other? The notion of integration; is it even possible?
