Twins

WorksDescriptionExhibitions

    Olen Sami

    In collaboration with Sami, Helsinki 2020
    
    
    Date

    22.10.2020

    Category

    Common, Other comics

    Sistergirl

    In collaboration with Esther Mcgomery and Vanessa Smith
    Perth, Australia 2018
    © Courtesy the artist. An International Art Space commission for spaced 3: north by southeast. 
    
    

     

    Date

    4.12.2020

    Category

    Common, Other comics

    Ei haittaa et kuvat ei mee yhtee

    In collaboration with Inari Porkka, Loviisa 2020
    Date

    21.10.2020

    Category

    Common, Other comics

    En tykkää kun sanotaan äiti

    In collaboration with Hanna, Helsinki 2020
    

     

    Date

    22.10.2020

    Category

    Common, Other comics


The Twins project centres on the question How do you communicate gender? Together with groups of children, I investigated how you can build a gender with the help of clothes, gestures, makeup, hair, glances and poses. We built a representation of being both boy and girl for the photographs. In each picture the same child is present twice, as a boy and a girl twin.

The basis for the project has been fashion magazines like Vogue Bambini, that specializes on fashion for children, and analysis of these magazines made by curator and Ph. d Annamari Vänskä. The exhibition deals with questions regarding different perceptions of gender and how we accentuate and define gender by visual signals, asking questions like: Can I think beyond the norms that genderize children? Why do I want to know the ‘real’ gender of the child and why is gender important at all?

Twins was first realised in Helsinki 2011 and continued in Paris in 2012. A workshop concept for groups has been developed from the project, working with children from he age of 3, scool classes, or adults, participants get to explore their own perception of gender by developing and being photographed as their imagined ”twin”.

 


    Helsinki Pride 2020 in the National Museum Park

    Other Comics exhibition for Helsinki Pride 7-13.9 2020

    Documentation Heidi Lunabba and Makte Muuri

    Client

    Brand & Co.

    Date

    8.3.2016

    Category

    Exhibitions Other comics