Kiasma

It seems common practise that people don't go see the sights and attractions in the city they live in either because they think that they should go elsewhere to see the sights or that they might look like a tourist in their own city. This is why I enjoy having visitors from elsewhere to give me an excuse to visit places I've not been to before, even though they're right down the street. Last week we went to Kiasma, Helsinki's contemporary art museum, with a friend visiting from the US. The exhibits are a bit of a mixed bag, but it is a fine collection overall. I especially liked the "Faster than History" exhibit, a collection of artwork from Baltic countries which included a series of photographs of 3 shivering men clad only in underwear standing in front of churches and a number of film shorts, a few of which had me laughing out loud. The artwork in the picture is "Gun. So What?" if I remember it correctly. There was a gun on a tripod and several bottles suspended on a plate of glass with a light lending a dramatic effect. The way it came out in the photograph, taken with a Lomo, is pretty cool as it looks like a bullseye drawn with light.

14 Feb 2004 at 21:25, Helsinki