Off-Colour (2023), Helsinki Art Museum

On 13. August 2022 a 6-second video of a meteor was posted online. Twitter quickly suspended the account, citing a rule against sharing intimate media without the subject’s consent. The astronomer, scoffing at the idea of taking an intrusive or sexual video of a meteor, declared it an error of AI content moderation. Neither of them backed down.

Off-Colour sides with the AI as a tongue in cheek way to ask about visual capture and categorisation. In 3 linked works, trans and celestial bodies collide, collude, and insist on new terms of access—or refuse us entirely.

Conflab stages a debate between meteor, astronomer and AI, plus our own projections. Green Light Burning Shit presents dash cam footage of meteors, with nonconsensual shots overwritten by new fantasies. In Subserotic Bulge meteorite dust hinders the medical diagnosis of a uterus.

Click for more: Conflab ; Green Light Burning Shit ; Subserotic Bulge

Artist talk: Flis Holland & Artor Jesus Inkerö 1.6.2023

Critic's choice, Helsingin Sanomat 12.5.2023

Subserotic Bulge (2021/2023), detail. An MRI scan of an abdomen with large tumour mass.

Subserotic Bulge (2021/2023), detail. An MRI scan of an abdomen with large tumour mass.

Conflab (2023), detail. Greyscale marbled ink print like a slice of a stony interior, grains and bands of minerals in suspension.

Conflab (2023), detail. Greyscale marbled ink print like a slice of a stony interior, grains and bands of minerals in suspension.

Conflab (2023), installation view. A jagged chunk of rock sits in the cleft of a split-seat saddle stool. The stool is upholstered in pale pink pleather, which gathers in folds over the lips of the seat. Image: Helen Korpak

Conflab (2023), installation view. A jagged chunk of rock sits in the cleft of a split-seat saddle stool. The stool is upholstered in pale pink pleather, which gathers in folds over the lips of the seat. Image: Helen Korpak

Subserotic Bulge (2021/2023), installation view. Dual channel video with headphones. Image: Helen Korpak

Subserotic Bulge (2021/2023), installation view. Dual channel video with headphones. Image: Helen Korpak

Green Light Burning Shit (2023), installation view. Dash cam footage rear-projected onto car windscreen. Image: Helen Korpak

Green Light Burning Shit (2023), installation view. Dash cam footage rear-projected onto car windscreen. Image: Helen Korpak

Green Light Burning Shit (2023), detail. Dash cam footage while driving at dusk, white road markings stretching ahead.

Green Light Burning Shit (2023), detail. Dash cam footage while driving at dusk, white road markings stretching ahead.

Conflab (2023), installation view. A steel tray holding a red marbled ink print lies on a concrete floor. Image: Helen Korpak.

Conflab (2023), installation view. A steel tray holding a red marbled ink print lies on a concrete floor. Image: Helen Korpak.

Green Light Burning Shit (2023), detail. A psychedelic mass of red and black explodes across the screen. Caption: Woah, holy shit!

Green Light Burning Shit (2023), detail. A psychedelic mass of red and black explodes across the screen. Caption: Woah, holy shit!