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Tina Jokitalo © 2019<br />
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IN BETWEEN - Mitt i Siltä Mellan Väliltä (2008 - 10)<br />
3 series + 1 video<br />
From the past, a frozen moment in time, depicting a framed reflection, the<br />
purpose of its existence. <strong>In</strong> what dimension does it live? What is a memory in<br />
comparison to photography?<br />
A journey took its course with my camera and the photographs from my childhood<br />
family album. I asked the questions, what did I, as a third culture generation<br />
inherit and what arises out of it. What is home?<br />
Tina Jokitalo was born in Sweden and lived there for most of her childhood. Her<br />
parents re-immigration to Finland brought her to Kokkola and today she lives and<br />
works in Tampere.
A Matter of Pride 2010<br />
Ylpeyden Aihe - ... en sak att vara stolt över<br />
Duration: 3 min. 5 sek. (loop) Aspect ratio: 4:3<br />
This video is a collection of photographs from a family album and 8mm film, it<br />
considers the family identity and the value of a home from a Sweden Finn point of<br />
view, with echoes of the past. Rootlessness and a sense of non-belonging have<br />
driven me to look into my past, in order to understand it ś legacy.<br />
Volvo is more than just a car, it symbolically represents success and the ability to<br />
take root in a foreign and a new native country. It is about a matter of pride,<br />
where the car is as important, as the children in the photo album.<br />
The photographs of me and my little sister were taken by my father in 1974, -75<br />
and -77. <strong>In</strong> between, we see 8 mm film glimpses of the every year vacation from<br />
Sweden to Finland, when Abba was playing on the car cassette player.<br />
The length of this video is the same length as the song “Money, Money,<br />
Money” (03:05) made by Abba.
Screenshot from video
<strong>Between</strong> the Lines 2010<br />
Editions 7+AP<br />
<strong>Between</strong> the lines of pixels, encompasses the past, today and the moment<br />
of the capture. Diving in between realities. It is the urge to understand<br />
something that is intended but not expressed. The past is written in light, the<br />
visual documentary gives statements to my memories. But what is real and<br />
what is illusion? What does the red thread reveal?<br />
I wanted to play with the visual reality of the photography. I photographed<br />
myself with the camera in front of the screen of my computer. The only real<br />
physical object that is appearing between the screen and the digital<br />
camera is the red thread I am pulling, attached with tape on the screen.<br />
The ‘photo booth’- program ś window shows what the computer ś camera<br />
is viewing. <strong>In</strong> the background of the ‘photo booth’-window, I had opened<br />
the dvd-player ś window and during the photo session, I let the dvd play in<br />
slow-motion the 8mm film called KAITA (from my childhood).<br />
Art of Photography Show, 2010 Catalog: Judge forward<br />
“Complicated pictures that push the boundaries of traditional photography,<br />
such as Tina Jokitalo ś document of her performance with the inbedded<br />
camera on her computer, are a welcome surprise.”<br />
Natasha Egan, Associate Director and Curator Museum of Contemporary<br />
Photography at Columbia College Chicago, USA
Focus (and aim)
Frame (the moment)
Close-up (close on)
Refraction (and surrender)
Trigger (the past)
At home (in the presence of family) 2009 - 2010<br />
Editions 7+5+2<br />
What is home? Can we separate the concept of family from their physical<br />
home? I wanted to capture the everyday life within four walls and at the<br />
same time mirror the questions that awoke when looking at photographs<br />
from my own childhood family album.
Frida likes to play home in her room
The heart of the home
Frank also likes to play - something else than home though
Twice a week
Leaving home for daycare
Growing pains
A princess is a bride when wearing a veil
On the Threshold 2010<br />
I present a journey in a new light. Weaving a net, enlightening life in<br />
photographs and memories, by staging a story on the stage of a scale<br />
model. The two-dimensional photographic images are projection<br />
transparencies, interacting with three-dimensional space, light, reflections<br />
and physical objects.
Strongman (1975x2), 2010
Contacting surface (1974, 2009), 2010
Motherhood (1974), 2010
On the other side (2008x2), 2010
I fell silent... (1977 x2, 2008 x2), 2010
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