Eija Liisa Ahtila is an artist from
Finland mainly working with photography and video.
Eija Liisa Ahtila’s House is an abstract visual
representation of a mental disorder called psychosis. The House is one of five
episodes from the film Love is a Treasure.
Prior to the video installations, Ahtila interviewed women who had this
disorder. Based on the conversations, she created a whole new story with pieces
from each woman. This particular episode included three scenes yet the
character is emotionless to keep from over dramatizing the scene. The story encompasses
a protagonist named Elisa who flies upward, through the trees toward her house.
Ahtila explains further, “With the flying scene and the sounds of the forest, I
aimed at telling how she kind of lost gravity of things: a certain anchored
meaning of things.” She did not want to depict this scene and more so, this
disorder as something scary but rather as another state of being. Later, the video continues with scenes at her house. A significant
portion of her work calls for a written script, being in the video installation
realm. The process of writing for Ahtila is slow and long consisting of
lighting ideas, sounds dialogues and so on. In the end, she puts these ideas
together and creates a video piece.
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