Emppu Veinola
About the Artist
Emppu Veinola (b. 1998, Porvoo) is fascinated by impossible tasks and absurd questions. Veinola’s practice revolves around observing poetic traces of human presence and silent tensions between existence and environment. In their work Veinola trusts detailed perceptions to crystallise in subtle gestures. Their work usually interposes somewhere between performance and moving image.
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Exhibitions
Kuvan Kevät 2026
15.5.-14.6.2026
Hengitys
28.2.-23.3.2025
BFA Exhibition 2024
About the artwork
The work, a rotogravure print – the size of a stamp – is observed from a lookout point with binoculars. A tiny picture of a wind turbine, hanging high above the ground in the distance, makes it possible to enjoy a stagnant intimate moment of something immense, yet fleeting. The themes studied in this distantly viewed work include a longing for a connection and becoming known by the other. It presents a finding on how something can simultaneously be so close and somehow so far that you can almost touch it.