It’s my Island

source: we-make-money-not-art

One of the artists whose work i was most happy to discover at the exhibition Alter Nature: We Can in Hasselt a few days ago is Antti Laitinen.

The young Finish talent fills one room of the art space with a video triptych and a series of photos from It’s My Island. The work documents Laitinen’s sisyphean attempt to build his own island (and therefore micro-nation) in the Baltic Sea. He is seen filling hundreds of bags with sand, dragging them to the sea amidst relentless waves and conditions, until the island starts to emerge above the water surface.

The idyllic landscape took 3 months to shape up. Large storms reduced it to nothing in next to no time.
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source: goooodie

安蒂·莱特宁 (Antti Laitinen) 生于1975年，目前工作居住在芬兰。在他的艺术表演中，自己常常被置放于各种荒谬的局势中，突出一种极具讽刺意味的由个人承担各种社会和文化现象的特殊感受。而这种荒谬性正是由作品本身异常严肃的表现带来的。表演形式最终转化为摄影、录像或雕塑作品。

正因为安蒂·莱特宁本身对于这种活动转化为各种艺术作品有着极为浓厚的兴 趣，他的艺术实践非常注重过程和体验，他总是渴望接近自然，原始环境往往是第一选择。It’s My Island 和 Voyage是他最具个人特色的早期作品,是与自然最完美融合的杰作；Walk The Line则是他行走路线与肖像的多次重合，也颇为有趣。