Emilia Moisio

"Vieraalla maalla" (In a Foreign Place)   The on-going project “Vieraalla maalla” (In a Foreign Place) is induced by my personal experiences of cultural misunderstandings—miscommunications that befall all of us, at times, and affect the way we perceive images and the world around us.  In this fabricated, outlandish world, the traditions and customs from Finnish, Karelian andSami culture have been given a slightly odd twist. Although my images don’t deviate beyond recognizability for the viewers with the relevant cultural knowledge, the scenes do toy with proverbs, phrases and obsolete customs, rendering the images absurdly strange to those people who are unfamiliar with the cultural heritage altogether.  Drawing from personal experiences of cultural alienation and misunderstandings, and my own Karelian origin, the work invites the recipients to strive to decipher and locate the depicted world, thereby denoting the arbitrary nature of our interpretations of images, which we so often and easily take for granted.  Emilia Mosio
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