Eija Liisa
Ahtila
Eija Liisa
Ahtila
Ahtila
Finnish, born in 1959
A leading figure of video art since the 1990s, Eija-Liisa Ahtila explores the inconsistencies of language and complexity of human relations. A narrator of the sensitive, she weaves narratives by mixing invented stories with pre-existing facts. Between psychology and politics, she documents the absurdity of language in her videos that she labels as “human drama”. Her compositions mix several genres: interview, commercial films, documentary and archive films.
Her works is a commentary on the expression of otherness and human relations—the relationship with one's own self, with others and with social constructs. In the manner of a journalistic investigation, cinema or literature she explores how fears, anxieties and obsessions marginalize people and stigmatize psychiatric behaviors.
Eija-Liisa Ahtila's work was first shown by the Pinault Collection in the exhibition The Illusion of Light at Palazzo Grassi, in 2014.
Her works is a commentary on the expression of otherness and human relations—the relationship with one's own self, with others and with social constructs. In the manner of a journalistic investigation, cinema or literature she explores how fears, anxieties and obsessions marginalize people and stigmatize psychiatric behaviors.
Eija-Liisa Ahtila's work was first shown by the Pinault Collection in the exhibition The Illusion of Light at Palazzo Grassi, in 2014.
