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MMP: Fanni Niemi-Junkola

10.10 1998 – 8.11 1998

Stockholm

Fanni Niemi-Junkola’s videos are about human communication, but about its physical rather than verbal aspects: about how we interact with our bodies and create a physical space through them. She dramatises confrontational situations like fights and interviews in which she herself is a participant. Her work belongs to a post-minimalist tradition in which the presence and physical experience of both actors and viewers is an important element.

In a darkened room in Prästgården Fanni Niemi-Junkola will show “Pro-Boxers”, a video installation with four monitors place on a long table. In the video she has interviewed four Finnish professional boxers and asked them what they experience prior to, during and after a match and how it feels to win or to lose a match. In this way a verbal exchange arises between the artist and the boxers – rather like a parallel to the logic of boxing itself. In the installation, the boxers’ voices compete for space as in the ring they battle for physical space.

Fanni Niemi-Junkola’s often existential work circles around the western world’s division between body and mind in which she chooses the physical side as means of exploring the issue. Her work also relates to landscape and space and to people’s place in it – but without showing them literally. She also works with the mechanisms of violence, especially on how violence is tamed by habits and rules. She is concerned with an abstract struggle: several of her works contain fights between women, between equals who together break a social taboo. Here, in contrast to the world of sports, it is the fighting itself rather than the winning that is most important.

Pro-Boxers
Harri Hakulinen, Mika Kihlström, Juha Termunen and Jyrki Vierelä
interviewed by Fanni Niemi-Junkola
Four monitor video installation
Camera and sound Fanni Niemi-Junkola, Marika Orenius
Helsingfors/Helsinki 1998

Fanni Niemi-Junkola was born in 1962 in Tampere. She has recently had one-person shows at Catalyst Art in Belfast and The Collective in Edinburgh and has participated in the group show Momentum-Pakkhus in Moss. At the moment she is exhibiting in “This Side of the Ocean” at Kiasma – the Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki and in Manifesta 2 in Luxembourg.

Curator: Maria Lind

Moderna Museet Project

Moderna Museet Project is an activity of the Moderna Museet in Stockholm. Artists are commissioned to make new work for the temporary project space in the Old Vicarage next to the museum on Skeppsholmen, for other situations and environments in the city of Stockholm or elsewhere.