Otso Prunnila

An outcome of a year-long research process regarding a derelict, soon-to-be-demolished house in Kotka, Finland. An inquiry into memory and place, a final farewell to a house soon to disappear.

The site-specific work Clock Tower considers the former clock tower of the Central Markthal in Amsterdam through painting. Once a landmark, a timekeeper and a navigational device for the neighborhood, the tower was demolished in the 1980s after its concrete began to decay. The work draws its inspiration from the article Klokkentoren Centrale Markthal herbouwen in De Westkrant, as well as from various forum discussions, which describe the importance of the disappeared clock tower for the residents of the neighbourhood, and their desire for its return. By reimagining the tower through painting, the work brings back this lost landmark as both memory and ghost.

Poems composed from Google reviews of the restaurant that used to occupy the exhibition space, printed on plaster negatives of plates.

A painterly consideration of a wall and its practical, metaphorical, and imaginary implications. Positioned in the space and executed in situ, the painting depicts the inner anatomy of a wall while simultaneously revealing its own structural framework.

Lightbulbs connected to motion sensors, turning on and off according to the position and movement of the visitor’s body.