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Milla-Kariina Oja (FI) – Terra Continuum

Single-channel moving image work, projected onto the facade of Gallery Forum Box.

Terra Continuum contemplates the boundaries between animate and inanimate nature. What is the essence of a rock if you try to understand it in relation to different time scales, a scale of hundreds of millions of years –Earth’s geological time? Is a rock inanimate after all? 

The work was filmed on the limestone coast of Normandy, originally formed from the skeletons of plankton and protozoa on the floor of an ancient sea. From the perspective of matter, humans too are part of this mineral world: without the minerals (calcium carbonate) present in our bodies, we wouldn’t even be able to stand upright.

Terra Continuum is a version developed for Lux Helsinki based on the moving image installation Submerged, completed in Normandy in 2024.

Milla-Kariina Oja
Milla-Kariina Oja is a visual artist based in Helsinki who works with photography and moving image. Her practice is particularly focused on video installations, which combine both the experimental and the performative. The themes of her works arise in response to basic questions of existence, such as how human beings inhabit the world and the built environment, and engage with nature and its cycles. Oja has studied photography and contemporary art in Manchester Metropolitan University, and in the universities of Castilla-La Mancha, and Barcelona. Oja’s works have been exhibited throughout Europe and China.

Direction, Cinematography & Editing: Milla-Kariina Oja
Performers: Daphne Mallet, Alice Mallet, Norman Yamada, Akio Mallet-Yamada, Ariane Mallet-Yamada
Visual effects and Colour definition: Timo Teräväinen
Aerial footage: Philippe Picherit

Supported by:
Art Promotion Centre Finland TAIKE, The Promotion Centre for Audiovisual Culture Finland AVEK,
the VISEK Centre for the Promotion of Visual Art Finland

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