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'Translucid skins~strands~of~us' 2024-2026
Multidisciplinary project with focus on outdoor temporary interventions/installation and production of the art film 'Fall'
The project focuses on working with site-specific interventions and installations in nature and in the forest of Ostrobothnia, which will also be visual material for the art film 'Fall'. The work will also include side-productions, such as photography, writing, paintings and drawings.
The aim is to temporarily cover natural elements (such as dead trees, boulders) with a membrane of organic translucent material, entirely capturing their plasticity and textures, symbolically recalling a skin-chrysalis. Through a performative act the artist will peel back the shell, freeing the entity. Sculptures of pale thread will interact with them, spreading along the ground and intersect with the surrounding elements and roots of fallen trees, depicting man's fears, contradictions and vices, or connected to primordiality.
A moment of personal reflection and communion with the natural element, across art... re-discovering ourselves in other beings and things, and recognize that the change we would like and the metamorphoses we project outside of us, must start from us.
The artworks and actions around them will be part of the visual material of the video. The art film entitled 'Fall' poetically analyses the human existential condition/self-analysis on many layers: from the individual to the collective, and the urgency/need for true progression, which does not happen without difficulty and personal resolve. Introspections that lead to inner dynamics, culminating in cathartic moments of active transformation. A constantly progressing awareness and state of consciousness.
The project also includes temporary exhibition of multidisciplinary works in the forest, along a nature trail. Some installations will be re-proposed directly from the art film, others will be new. The artistic result will be an intersection of different artistic disciplines, such as painting, sculpture, textile, material, resulting in mixed media visual installations.
This phase of the project is planned for spring 2026 and an event will be organized, where the new art film will be presented to the public of Ostrobothnia.
The project takes inspiration from the duo exhibition 'Dripping Cavities', and the projects 'The Grey Hour' by Valentina Gelain & 'Scanning Landscape' by Bekim Hasaj.
In the project are also used bioplastic and recycled paper.
The art project is supported by Svensk-Österbottniska Samfundet & Arts Promotion Centre-Taike.
Thank you to Bergö Öråd and Maalahti/Malax Municipality.
Between 21-22 April 2025, Bekim Hasaj prepared and implemented the installation and performance related to the Translucid skins-strands-of-us project, dialoguing with a boulder in the forest in the municipality of Malax. The boulder was embedded in wet paper, shaping it gesture by gesture, and then removed after dry-impressing the surface of the element. Recycled pulp was used, previously prepared in the studio. The work is also related to the realisation of art in a nature trail in spring 2026.
Between 21-22 April 2025, Bekim Hasaj prepared and implemented the installation and performance related to the Translucid skins-strands-of-us project, dialoguing with a boulder in the forest in the municipality of Malax. The boulder was embedded in wet paper, shaping it gesture by gesture, and then removed after dry-impressing the surface of the element. Recycled pulp was used, previously prepared in the studio. The work is also related to the realisation of art in a nature trail in spring 2026.
Between 21-22 April 2025, Bekim Hasaj prepared and implemented the installation and performance related to the Translucid skins-strands-of-us project, dialoguing with a boulder in the forest in the municipality of Malax. The boulder was embedded in wet paper, shaping it gesture by gesture, and then removed after dry-impressing the surface of the element. Recycled pulp was used, previously prepared in the studio. The work is also related to the realisation of art in a nature trail in spring 2026.
Between 21-22 April 2025, Bekim Hasaj prepared and implemented the installation and performance related to the Translucid skins-strands-of-us project, dialoguing with a boulder in the forest in the municipality of Malax. The boulder was embedded in wet paper, shaping it gesture by gesture, and then removed after dry-impressing the surface of the element. Recycled pulp was used, previously prepared in the studio. The work is also related to the realisation of art in a nature trail in spring 2026.
Between 21-22 April 2025, Bekim prepared and implemented the installation and performance related to the ´Translucid skins~strands~of~us´ project, dialoguing with a rock in the woods.
The boulder was embedded in wet handmade paper, shaping it gesture by gesture, and then removed after dry-impressing the surface of the element. Recycled pulp was used, previously prepared in the studio.
´Through a conscious artistic action Hasaj will cover, explore and feel the surface, incorporating it into the symbolic shell of metamorphosis. In a second moment, in a performative act the artist will peel back the shell, freeing the entity and share the knowledge-experience and reflecting the transformation in himself (...) Once the cover is removed, the shapes imprinted in the material will be preserved and included in the artistic production - the material becomes the object.´
This first paper sculpture is related to the realisation of art in a nature trail in spring 2026, by the Artist Duo. The work also connects to the artist's previous project ´Scanning Landscape´.
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