Josefina Nelimarkka | SUPERSATURATION
12.3.–4.4.2021
Supersaturated air
Supersaturated moment
Supersaturated colour
Supersaturation takes the viewer towards the possibilities of a cloud – both real and virtual. The body of work is an endless process: every moment is connected to the ongoing cloud formation. The video- and sound installation is transformed by information that is measured and filmed directly from the atmosphere. The gallery space fills with glass sculptures, transparent poetics and climate data technology.
Air, pixel, word and sound condense, accumulate and evaporate. The uncertainty which describes the cloud shifts into sensory experientiality through a flux of datasignals and colours. The exhibition speaks for multiple saturation phenomena moving across climate and society with a process tied to the environment and immersed by colour. Supersaturation is artistic research that combines art, climate science and data technology. Josefina Nelimarkka has worked on a long-term basis with climate scientists focusing on the complex questions and interactiorelated to the atmosphere and clouds.
Josefina Nelimarkka is an interdisciplinary artist who has graduated from Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki and Royal College of Art in London. In her recent work she explores the in/visible and its perception in relation to the politics of air and future scenarios of climate change in collaboration with climate scientists, paleoclimatologists and nano engineers. Continuous process, performativity and real-time climate data bring forth the momentary time and the sensitivity of the environment.
In collaboration with Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research INAR & Hyytiälä Forestry Field Station – Helsinki University and Department of Environmental Science and Analytical Chemistry ACES – Stockholm University.
Supported by The Finnish Cultural Foundation, Alfred Kordelin Foundation and Arts Promotion Centre Finland.
