Childhood is the earlier experienced state of an adult body, to which we instinctively remain connected throughout our lives. The installation uses people’s shadows as gateways to this lost state. Our shadows become an anthropomorphic lens recalling this previous corporeal state hidden inside our adult form.
Interaction takes place on the projection screen, where both time levels are visually linked for a moment. A connection between the child and the space that limits her existence is ambiguous. She is not alone in the dark: somebody moves in the background behind her, controlling her and her route towards our shadow.

programming: Seppo Heikkilä

Production support:
AVEK
Arts Council of Finland

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