Aalto Objects

2011-2012, Series of 15 photographs, framed archival pigment print, 44 cm x 35 cm each   Objects from the series Aalto Objects belongs to Alvar Aalto Home museum. Kina explores the museum as a living space. The idea of home as a museum, as a kind of reconstruction of one’s life, which combines the public … Read more

Somnivm

2017-2018, 35 mm film / transferred to 4K, 12min 39 sec, stereo, 5.1 (in relation to the marble sculpture Retractor Hydrobag) Somnivm, 35mm film transferred to 4K, 12min, 39sec, color, sound, installation view, Beaconsfield Gallery, 2018   “Kina has chosen to focus on the history of the quarries from which this famous marble is procured, … Read more

Akiya 空家

  Akiya is film work, which deals with phenomenon of desolation of urban built environment. The issue of empty apartments and houses in contemporary Tokyo is the background of this Noh theatre inspired work, where spirits are typical characters. The medium and the machine are treated as a performing other. The work does not show … Read more

Retractor Hydrobag

2018, Carrara marble, 90 x 95 x 26 cm (in relation to the film Somnivm)   Retractor Hydrobag, installation view, Beaconsfield Gallery, London 7.3-22.4.2018 Somnivm & Retractor Hydrobag, installation view, Sara Hildén Art Museum, Out of Office exhibition, 2019 Retractor Hydrobag is a tool of its own destruction. It offers insight to both classical statuary … Read more

Score of Arr. for a Scene

2017, Triptych, archival pigment prints, 107 x 80 cm each   Score of Arr. for a Scene is a triptych of sheet music prints containing the sonic structures, details and forms of sound achieved by the foley artists in the film Arr. for a Scene. With the methods of notation Kina explores the structures and … Read more

Arr. for a Scene

Still from Arr. for a Scene, 2016-2017, 35 mm color film with sound, transferred to 4K/HD, 5 min 18 sec “The sonic force of cinema’s most famous murder scene is investigated.Two foley artists recreate Hitchcock’s shower sequence, deconstructing the associations of aural signifiers, and the synesthetic power of sound. Jonna Kina contextualize this uncanny phenomenon … Read more

Foley Objects

2013, Series of 26 photographs, 38 x 38cm, archival pigment print, framed ‘ The series Foley Objects involves a game of synaesthesia. In this work Kina plays with viewers’ expectations and with the conceptual delimitations of the photographic medium. The words refer to the sound generated by the objects that are portrayed. “Foley” means the … Read more