WORLD PREMIERE ✣
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VJ
LOCATION
Valkoinen Sali
ARTIST
Björn Sahlin
Everything that bleeps and blinks grabs Björn's attention. As a child, music was constantly blasting in his room, often drawing cartoons, and daydreaming of technology, skateboarding, and strobe lights. That is where it all started. Today, by mixing all types of moving media and cameras, animation, musical instruments, vfx, and old video gear, Björn turns the ordinary inside-out and into something surreal and abstract. Out of a need to create and a curiousity, Björn went from drawing on paper to painting walls and freight cars, and by the documentation of graffiti, skateboarding, and surrounding subcultures, a growing fascination for making video developed—all self-taught, and through a state of flow.
We are all connected, yet it's hard to see how or why that is in this endless wash of information, consumerism and idolism of today. But if we go behind all of those things, trapped in time, we find connection. In a sea of flashing patterns, colour and motion, symbolism and greed is contrasted with the very thing that unites us. Can you see through the veil?