"In my
art I create scenes or spaces that attends to create an opening or a crack
to experience something that attends to link us with the natural environment
itself, or to the meaning structures culture concerned has build from the
experiences of the surrounding world and has found worthy of remembering
and passing on.
My methods have been linked to ethnographical approach. I
study old and new stories and visual representations produced on the subject,
interview people and research museum collections and archives. I collect
material from certain issue or an area and combine historical material with
todays phenomena in order to create a story or a scene.
Major area or interest
for me have been the animals that have been associated with other. Why certain
animals have been viewed evil in our tradition, even we don´t have any physical
contact with them, but the produced images in our mind keep influencing us.
The
artwork takes form in installations combining sculptural elements, digital
prints, sound and video. I work with the possibilities in the given space,
in or outside."
Juhana Moisander
More information, pictures and videos can be found at: www.juhanamoisander.com