The essayistic video work Letter 1 / AIR is the first part of a four-part series. The dialogue heard in the background is based on a correspondence that has taken place since 2021 between visual artist Miia Autio and Beninese medium and traditional healer Koffi Robert Djossou. Through this exchange, the artist seeks to explore a worldview unfamiliar to her – that of Vodun, the world’s largest nature-based religion. The work is a dive into Vodoun’s invisible realm and into questions concerning the relationship between belief, images, and reality. The pursuit of the invisible world initiated a personal process for the artist, in which various messages, dreams, and whispers of wind began, almost of their own accord, to carry the story forward.

Miia Autio (b. 1986) is a visual artist with a background in documentary photography. Her works explore the boundary between the visible and the invisible, as well as the impact of images on the construction of different worldviews. She graduated with a Master’s degree in Fine Arts from the Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts Helsinki, in 2022.