Reading performance for two voices, Secret Words and Related Stories

Reading perfomance for two voices, Secret Words and Related Stories, with actors Inga Salurand and Taavi Eelmaa, part of Greatest Hits exhibition, exhibited artists: Cyprien Gaillard, Francis Alÿs, Gary Hume, Hannah Black, Jonna Kina, Lucia Nimcova, Pierre Huyghe, curators: Evelyn Raudsepp, Maria Arusoo, Maria Helen Känd, Maria-Kristiina Soomre, Marten Esko, Siim Preiman, Triin Metsla, Contemporary Art Museum … Read more

Music for 4 Sculptures in 15 Pieces in 9 Movements for 2 Performers

Music for 4 Sculptures in 15 Pieces in 9 Movements for 2 Performers, performance in Kumu Art Museum, 2022   Music for 4 Sculptures in 15 Pieces in 9 Movements for 2 Performers (2022) is a piece by Jonna Kina and Lauri Supponen written for the fragments of destroyed sculptures by August Weizenberg and Amandus … Read more

Four Sculptures in Fifteen Pieces

Four Sculptures in Fifteen Pieces, 5min 39sec, 35mm film transferred to 4K/HD, color, sound, installation View, Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, 2022   S 430, S433, S436, S 445, archival pigmnet ink print, 46,79cm x 58,5cm, framed with museum glass   Four Sculptures in Fifteen Pieces looks at the themes of creation and destruction. The film … Read more

after life

After Life, 2021, 35mm film transferred to 4K, 5′, 5.1 / stereo, installation view   After Life explores transcendental issues through archaeological and illegal excavations of tombs. The film is composed of a sequence of meditative short scenes picturing the ruins of a small Faliscan necropolis of Cavone di Monte Li Santi in Italy and … Read more

red impasto jar

Red Impasto Jar, 2021, 35mm film transferred to 4K, 3′ 21″   The film portrays the state of a looted burial object made for afterlife within a three-minute single take. The film focuses on the detailed documentation of the jar with a slow 360° revolution on a robust industrial motor. This ancient Faliscan burial item … Read more

confession piece for voice

Confession Piece for Voice, 2020-2021, 12″ vinyl, 3’24” Confession Piece for Voice is a sound installation played in an exhibition space on a 12-inch vinyl record upon request. On the recording a young person’s soprano voice interprets poem in the form of a cappella. The libretto is adapted from the autobiographical work Confessions (397- 398) … Read more

Aalto Objects

2012, Series of 15 photographs, archival pigment print, 44 cm x 35 cm each Objects from the series Aalto Objects belongs to architect Alvar Aalto and his home museum. I have explored the museum as a living space. The idea of home as a museum, as a kind of reconstruction of one’s life, which combines … Read more

Untitled

2017, framed archival pigment print, series of 6 prints, 30,5 x 35 cm each Objects that were used in the sound process while creating sound effects for the film Arr. for a Scene (2017).                 Copyright © Jonna Kina. All rights reserved.

Reconstructions

2012, 21min, HD, 2-channel video installation, 16:9, original language Finnish with English subtitles   The video installation Reconstructions deals with the subjective interpretation of images and the reading as an act of creating new images. A 14-year old girl describes a selection of pictures in her own words. The selected images are representations of a … Read more