METTE EDVARDSEN

Stills started out as an experiment. I was interested in how video as technology could interact or inform our (physical) doing, and what this would produce in return. I wanted to see how presence could be experienced, like a physical idea, through this media. From a technical point of view the task was simple. I used the camera only to capture, and the people did the ‘effects’. I was working with the ambiguities and tensions between intention and action, playing with disturbances of the optical perception and notions of time and resistance.

By Mette Edvardsen, filmed in Tromsø, Norway 2002.

With special thanks to Reima Kaiponen, Inge Lodewijks, Juha Lämsä, Jouko Karhu, Jari Karhu, Liv Hanne Haugen, Lawrence Malstaf, Yukiko Shinozaki, Leo and Heine R. Avdal.
Sauna in Exile, a project by Heine R. Avdal, Mette Edvardsen, Liv Hanne Haugen, and Lawrence Malstaf
Photo: Gaetano Cammarota, Figura N° Galleria d’Arte Moderna / Bologna