Fokus Finlandia
KBB Külturburo Barcelona
2006

"Memoria Fragmentada" is an installation made in collaboration with Seppo Renvall for Fokus Finlandia -group exhibition in Kültur Büro Barcelona. Seppo Renvall's video “Woody” is projected on the back wall of the darkened rectangular exhibition space. The video, made of material shot by his father on 8mm film, shows two year old Seppo wondering around the garden of their summerhouse in mid 60's.

In addition there are ten rounded double-sided mirrors hanging in a row between the projector and the projection wall. These mirrors rotate slowly with electric motors, about one round in a minute. The rotating mirrors reflect slowly orbiting spots of the video projection on the surrounding walls of the exhibition space. The spots reflected by mirrors close to the projector have wider view and more details in them where as the mirrors closer to the back wall reflect very abstract, low resolution spots of the original video.

Since some of the mirrors rotate opposite direction the spots occasionally meet and overlap each other. This same effect is also caused by reflections passing the slower ones. Although all mirrors rotate at the same speed the reflected spots which are further from the source mirror are not only bigger but also move faster.

The installation creates an atmosphere remindingdreams in which fragments of your past suddenly come into your mind in random order only to be forgotten again. The images which were so vivid at night fade into confused traces of them by the morning. What remains is kind of melancholic longing for innocence you cannot reach anymore.