Finn Emmen

video , installatie , film , Experimenteel , Conceptueel

My work combines video art, installation, and flat colour fields that accompany each other to be able to investigate new perspectives that are hidden at first sight. At the same time, I am drawn to how anonymity becomes visible in daily life through the normalities of routines.

In the video work, I find performativity in characters that interact through social and spatial narratives within isolated, sterile, or quiet spaces. These spaces are brought into objects, windows, doors and exterior environments by using greenscreen as a tool. This way, unexpected encounters are created between the inside and outside, interior and exterior. These spatial narratives come to the foreground in the form of an installation, where I stretch the perspectives of the characters apart and new insights are shown as spatial deconstructions of cinematic narratives.

I like to refer to the word characters, and sometimes numbers instead of given names. This way I can distinguish the person from their personal expressions and feelings but let that happen in colours and the objects that surround them. While they try to reach for each other, live around each other, or long for something more, they stay stuck in an in between state. At the same time, this in between state becomes its own character and takes its shape as flattened out colour fields.

Flattened out grey and green screen colours are scattered around the space, representing hidden and empty spaces that reveal themselves. What is just a grey colour by eye, challenges the invisible perspectives that lay in between absence and presence, creating a tendency to manifest these colours a space. Whilst at the same time it acts as a symbol for these colours to remain a thought.

**“Character 1, Character 2, and the Third Perspective”** - Video Installation, 3 videos: “Character 1” 12 min. “Character 2” 15 min. “Third Perspective” 10 min. A character walks in and out of an empty space, looks out of a window, and sees a landscape covered in snow. While moving slowly, another character appears and seems to be stuck. The characters are watching each other, while new spaces appear in a narrative that shifts between a cold landscape and a domestic household. Objects and green notions act as a third perspective that moves through cracks, spaces and windows, inviting you to take a step back towards reality, and question colours in their true forms. While Finn draws attention to objects and characters that move through different places, she suggests a quiet longing between the characters and landscapes outside of their reach. Through the use of flat layered colour fields, the viewer can imagine these spaces, rather than have them shown explicitly.

**“Green Kitchen”** - Video Installation, 2 videos For the group exhibition “We Were Never Here, Javastraat 138 A” The kitchen becomes a place of meeting shared routines, connecting, and where time settles into gestures. The cabinets hold a quiet movement and observation of daily life where a couple inhabit each other’s presence. A less fixed gaze is shown in the second perspective, where we shift from observation to experience, breaking the barrier of stillness.

**“Radio Silence”** - Video Installation A woman is engaged in a dialogue with herself, the house, and a radio. Where direct movement and interactions with the house create a sense of isolation, the house becomes a witness in the everyday actions of the woman. Green screen colours enhance the absence of communication, and what remains is a space where the tension between presence and the lack of information becomes activating instead of responsive.

Paper Walls

Datum: 08-08-2025 t/m 31-08-2025

Locatie: Het Archief Artspace

groepstentoonstelling
gecureerd door Finn Emmen
kunstenaars: Minne Ponsen, Otso Prunnila, Lisa Nijs en Heidi Holmstrom

A wall can be heavy. Or ultra-light. It can hold, collapse, pin things down. Paper is where ideas land - quickly, quietly. Where we jot things down, pin them up, fold them into shapes, send them to someone. A surface where ideas land, briefly or for good.

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