I use a method and a form of presentation in my work which has its origin in my studies in ethnology and cultural geography. I combine my curiosity for daily life and objects, my collectors’ instinct and my interest in maps. During the last years I have chosen to work within restricted areas, where I have made inventories, photographed objects and phenomena and collected objects, which I marked out on maps. The photograph, its reproductive quality and its ability to raise objects to a new status is throughout one of the driving forces in my projects. My work has a scientific approach and I investigate our daily life. I have chosen to see the things I work with as scientific objects, relics, exhibition objects or archaeological finds. The background for this way of working has derived from visits I have made at different museums, ethnographical, anthropological and natural-historical, where I have studied how objects are presented and interpreted when they are taken from their original surrounding. In my recent works I have incorporated objects and made installations influenced by the museums mentioned above.

LEENA JOKELA