Minding Corals is an installation consisting of a video work and a plaster cast. It combines weeping tradition, asmr phenomenon and a practice of naming in natural sciences.The distant species, whose dreamy reality is happening concurrently. The work is an attempt to understand a transition phase which corals are going through. Feelings of powerlessness towards climate change and a mass extinction. It’s about an illusion of beauty, romanticism and projection of emotions towards symbols of destruction, human centrality and our contradictory role in climate change.

Eerika Jalasaho is a media artist who uses kinetic sculpture, photography and moving images as the main mediums in her works. She often studies relationships between human and non-human, two and three-dimensionality and materiality of digitality in her works. She graduated from Aalto University with a Master of Arts in 2023. Her work has been shown widely in Finland and internationally.