Johanna Ketola

The Walls Of My Hall, in collaboration with Jan Wolski

The Walls Of My Hall is a multichannel video installation referring to the human body as a place to exist—a structure—related to its built environment. The work happens in "selected reality" as bodies are at rest and in calculated motion. The surroundings they inhabit and the furniture they sit upon are radically removed. Stark black, empty spaces still reflect what was once there and what has been erased. An audio soundtrack of live radio broadcast is pumped into the spaces by small radios, an echo of the present world colliding with these suspended people. Although dark and eerie, the piece also reflects a certain sense of humor, a moment of hope that we carry on even when we are represented in real or fictionalized space that is void of support.

Working in video and photography, Finnish artist Johanna Ketola reconstructs narrative that is built upon her quotidian observations of life. This results in both fictional and autobiographical characters and stories, which often reflect her state of being as affected by a kind of sweet and absurd hopelessness about the human condition. Her work has been exhibited at Kiasma Contemporary Art Museum in Helsinki, Finland; in Holden Gallery in Manchester, UK; in Espace Croix-Baragnon in Toulouse, France; in Amos Anderson Art Museum in Helsinki, Finland; in the following Finnish museums: Jyväskylä, Rauma, Oulu, and Mikkeli; and in Gallery Jangva in Helsinki, Finland, among others.

Gallery Hours
Sept 04 - Sept 13 . Every Day, 12 - 6:30 pm
Sept 17 - Oct 18 . Thurs - Fri . 12 - 6:30 pm; Sat - Sun . 12 - 4 pm

www.johannaketola.com