In 2022, the Finnish pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale exhibited Pilvi Takala–Close Watch. The multi-channel video installation is based on the artist’s experiences during her six-month employment and research while working covertly for Securitas as a fully qualified security guard in one of Finland’s largest shopping malls.

A video archive exploring how motion and stillness interact when viewed from a moving vehicle. Across cities, it captures drifting, daydream-like encounters with urban life in moments of transit.

The story is simple (by Zuz Buchowska) and speaks about the futility of indecision. An ordinary child is faced with an overwhelming question, if you could turn back a moment in time which moment would you chose? The story has been divided into six parts and with every new part, one of the three colours is replaced while the other two are retained, creating a shifting colour palette for the film.

Artisitc outcomes from my Masters thesis, inspired by Jane Bennet's book "Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things"

The lichen Cladonia Rangiferina, changes its ontology across realities. It exists as myth, in the minds of humans as the beard of a mighty forest spirit. It exists as food, for reindeer. SEM is a type of electron microscope that produces images of a sample by scanning the surface with a focused beam of electrons. The electrons interact with the atoms in the sample, creating signals that describe the topography and create the image down to the resolution of a single nanometer. As part of my artistic research with Reindeer Lichen, I made a series of microscopic scans using the Scanning Electron Microscope.