Are We There

The project tells about a performative journey to an old village in Brazil, where I try to build a connection with the past by reconstructing and reimagining it.

In 1929 a group of Finns set out to a Brazilian rainforest to build a community based on vegetarianism and living in harmony with nature. My great-grandparents and their children were part of this utopia migration that later on developed into a different reality.

The project tells about a performative journey to the old village where I try to build a connection with the past by reconstructing and reimagining it. Like with the original settlers, the work stems from a primitive need to connect with the earth and the nonhuman world. Through rituals that immerse the human body in its environment, I try to find answers to the questions of origin, belonging and coexistence.