Tense Places is a practice-based research project comprising a visual module and a written component. The visual module—exhibited at Kuva/Tila during the 2025 Kuvan Kevät (the Academy of Fine Art’s MFA degree show)—includes a series of screen prints, an original map-poem, an assemblage of found, folded, and altered objects, and a moving image work. These works were developed using collage, scanography, and serigraphy, combining found materials and travel ephemera with original textual fragments. Drawing on the aesthetics and materiality of photo albums, home movies, and other domestic archiving practices, the artworks explore notions of place and distance—both geographic and metaphysical—while addressing how context, subjectivity, and spatial-temporal dislocation shape meaning.
