Mother's heritage Added by MOA2006

Photo: Kirsi Andersson

I did not know my mother. She left when I was three years old. The only reminder I had of her were two photographs and the film-star ideals and deep wishes she wrote into my aunt's "My friends book".
Twenty-seven years later I was brought a card-board box that contained her inheritance.

All fifty-eight objects from the box have been photographed for the installation.
The video is like a condensation of the journey, as it progress, the distance between the target and the one who approaches it diminishes - to the onlooker it seems that the target approaches the approacher more and more courageously. The target is like a dream or a treasure and once it finally becomes lucid and possible to be confronted, the emptiness and silence it offers is simultaneously horrible and liberating.

Prior to being admitted to the School of Art Education at the University of Art and Design Helsinki, Kirsi Andersson had studied to be a graphic designer at the Lahti University of Applied Sciences. After graduation she continued her studies in the printmaking programme at the Lahti Institute of Fine Arts. Along with her artistic work, her studies and work experience in marketing and graphic design have given her a solid foundation for her current job as an art teacher.
Currently Kirsi is involved in art education at the grassroots level. Her studies in art education led her to reflect upon her work and consider issues of her own personal and professional identity. In a fragmented world without permanent truths, she wants to share her idea of art education as a place of story-telling, where people could learn to understand and to become the subjects of their own life.

Contact:
kanderss(at)uiah.fi
+358 40 521 6133