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Sini Pelkki

Embarkation

Film expérimental | 16mm | couleur | 7:10 | Finlande | 2012

Embarkation is a moving image that is framed like a photograph. Through repetition it builds up into a single image, like a photograph that consists of countless images. With simultaneous presence and absence, the work explores the realtionship between still and moving image.

Sini Pelkki is an artist working with photography and moving image. Her work derives and evolves around photography and the photographic image. Her film works are often based on photographic images. Focusing on the subjectivity of seeing and the relation between a human and different physical and psychological environments and spaces. Her work has been shown across Europe in exhibitions and festivals. Pelkki was born 1978 in Helsinki, Finland. She studied fine art in Chelsea College of Art and Design in London (UK) and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki. She is currently based in Helsinki.