Jan Kaila and Japo Knuutila
Poetic Archeology. 2015
Video, 30 min
This road movie shows images of a Middle-European landscape characterized by a complex layering of memory and amnesia. With that, the following question intrudes upon the artists: Does this landscape force us to place modernity and a post-historical sense of time in another, more poetic perspective, a perspective able to bring about a new connection between landscape and the awareness of time? (Henk Slager)
© Still: Jan Kaila and Japo Knuutila
Courtesy of 1st Asia Biennial &
5th Guangzhou Triennial,
Guangdong Museum of Art
11 December 2015 - 10 April 2016, Guangzhou, China. Theme: Asia Time. Organizer: Guangdong Museum of Art. Chairman: Luo Yiping. Chief Curators: Henk Slager, Zhang Qing. Curators: Kim Hong-Hee, Ute Meta Bauer, Sarah Wilson, Sun Ge.