In Relief # 1 & 2 In Relief # 1 & 2 “The back-page of History”. In Relief is a unique collaboration between visual artist Anu Pennanen and musician Sasu Ripatti – aka Vladislav Delay. Realised during the pandemic, the duo asked us to think beyond the gallery, into the world, and the complicated overlapping past, present and future histories that we inherit. Exploring two specific sites, DK Gaza in St. Petersburg, and La Rasude in Lausanne, the duo aimed at creating for each site an immaterial monument of the small anonymous corners of everyday life in a given place. Date: 2021 Commissioner: PALO With the support of: FRAME Contemporary Art Finland – CEC ArtsLink – TAIKE The Arts Promotion Centre Finland – The Finnish Institute in St. Petersburg – Connecting Points Finland-Russia exchange, HIAP. Exhibition partners: Festival Art Prospect St. Petersburg (In Relief #1), Labor Lausanne (In Relief #2). Listen to the soundtrack here and here. Browse other productions: […]Read More…
Itä Pasila
Itä Pasila Itä Pasila “What does it mean to “inherit” a city? What do we inherit?” The city is on the one hand the object of what the inhabitants think and judge that of which is “urban”; on the other side, the city is this complex process of planning and construction. The concept of Heredity is what we inherit passively; inheritance, on the other hand, is what one chooses to inherit; it’s about Freedom. This hybrid film work by Anu Pennanen in collaboration with the inhabitants of Itä Pasila, a multicultural neighbourhood in Helsinki, is based on the idea of what we inherit from the city, rather than talking about the notion of “patrimoine”. It involves youth, elders, different social and ethnic backgrounds in an archaeological approach to re-look at the city, to disarm the eyes of preconceived ideas and ask: how do we inhabit, and how do we insert ourselves into a larger History? How do we negotiate our right to the city? Date: 2025 Producer: PALO With the support of: Linnamo Foundation, the City of Helsinki, EMO Foundation. Exhibitions: Kunsthalle Helsinki KOHTA (two person exhibition with Liisa Roberts). Curator: Anders Kreuger. Browse other productions: […]Read More…
A Poem to Read when I’m Gone
A Poem to Read when I’m Gone A Poem to Read when I’m Gone “Welcome to the limbo of our society”. A man—be he Syrian, Afghan or Kurd—flees from a refugee centre at the former Berlin Tempelhof airport. From then on, he lives alone between the lockers at train stations, unobserved by passers-by, barred from life by fences. He murmurs a poem that, like an incantation for a better life, accompanies his bleak existence. Anu Pennanen makes a cautious and gentle approach to a dull reality that can only be endured thanks to the forces of poetry. Date: 2020 Producer: PALO Produced with support of: AVEK Audiovisual Culture- TAIKE The Arts Promotion Centre Finland – VISEK and Alfred Kordelin Foundation. Screenings: KINO DER KUNST film festival and art exhibition Munich, Cinema Orion Helsinki in cooperation with AV-Arkki. Watch an excerpt here. Browse other productions: […]Read More…
Staande! Debout! Standing!
Staande! Debout! Standing! Staande! Debout! Standing! “C’est la lutte finale!” 2012, Vilvoorde, an abandoned industrial area in Flanders, Belgium. Felix is an ex-car factory worker. Fifteen years ago his employer suddenly announced the plant’s closure. In response 3100 workers went on strike, paralysing Belgium for weeks. But what remains after solidarity and struggle? Based on true events, this fictionalised account by Anu Pennanen and Stéphane Querrec follows Felix’s attempts to overcome forgetting and myth-making to make sense of the traumatic events. Date: 2013 Producer: PALO In Cooperation with Stills Gallery Scotland With support of AVEK Audiovisual Culture- TAIKE The Arts Promotion Centre Finland – Helander Foundation. Screenings: Glasgow Film Festival, Kiasma Teatteri Helsinki, Lens Politica Film festival Helsinki, Cinema des Galeries Brussels. Watch the film here. Browse other productions: […]Read More…