version 2.0: Larynx
2025
VR, sound
user-specific time
site-specific dimensions (see tech below)

version 1.0: In, Bleb
2024
video, sound
00:03:48, 1-channel, loop
aspect ratio: 16:9, colour

nonlinear narrative, virtual poetics, queer perspective, human-machine interface

The VR work invites inside an imagined larynx. Larynx is the hollow organ inside throat, the voice box, holding vocal cords and forming a passage for breathing air. It's where sounds are forming before becoming words, a timeless space where voices coexist before any language being dominant.

Inside a cave-like clay sculpture live fragmented text and torn 3D images of moss. These cracks and glitches are born in the virtualisation process of realworld forest, handmade clay sculpture and handwritten poetry.

The work is exploring virtual poetics, queer perspective, human body and the language forming in different realms. The visitor can participate by holding the text shapes, while possibly coincidentally reorganising intuitive meanings for the matter that seems familiar but doesn’t directly reveal its meanings.

The work is self-discovering, exploring the intimate VR experience, vulnerable digital matter, and poetic understanding of space mixing organic and digital. The work is made with clay, PolyCam, Blender and Unity.

Generously supported by the Arts Promotion Centre (Taike) 2024–2025. The conceptual and textual work started in the Zaratan residency in October 2023, thank you for the space and support. The VR work started in the workshop for selected artists in November 2023 as a cooperation of MUU Helsinki Contemporary Art Centre and Animation Guild, thank you Leena Jääskeläinen, Kristina Laine and Albert Laine for guidance and co-participants.

Exhibitions

2025 group exhibition, Supermarket Art Fair (SE)
2024 group exhibition, MUU Helsinki Contemporary Art Centre (FI)
2023 solo exhibition, Zaratan Contemporary Art Centre (PT)

More about the process

In, Bleb (earlier version, 2024)
AiR Zaratan notes (2023)
VR workshop (2023)