Finn Emmen

My work combines video art, installation, and flat colour fields that accompany each other to be able to investigate new perspectives that are hidden at first sight. At the same time, I am drawn to how anonymity becomes visible in daily life through the normalities of routines. 

In the video work, I find performativity in characters that interact through social and spatial narratives within isolated, sterile, or quiet spaces. These spaces are brought into objects, windows, doors and exterior environments by using greenscreen as a tool. This way, unexpected encounters are created between the inside and outside, interior and exterior. These spatial narratives come to the foreground in the form. of an installation, where I stretch the perspectives of the characters apart and new insights are shown as spatial deconstructions of cinematic narratives. 

I like to refer to the word character, and sometimes numbers instead of given names. This way I can distinguish the person from their personal expressions and feelings but let that happen in colours and the objects that surround them. While they try to reach for each other, live around each other, or long for something more, they stay stuck in an in between state. At the same time, this in between state becomes its own character and takes its shape as flattened out colour fields. 

Flattened out grey and green screen colours are scattered around the space, representing hidden and empty spaces that reveal themselves. What is just a grey colour by eye, challenges the invisible perspectives that lay in between absence and presence, creating a tendency to manifest these colours a space. Simultaneously it acts as a symbol for these colours to remain a thought.