Elli Syrjänen
Strawberry secrets and corners of rooms: I could eat you (2026)
10 min
Screening:
Not not amusement only

Youth on the Street of Why Not. In the video, the edges of big and small things lose meaning, loving that they can live long days that end in parties. Time opens, passes one begins to live more and more in rooms, things fold into corners and rooms. In corners, not wanting, it’s different. In corners, at worst: the horror of weightlessness.
Crystal/gemstone-heart sunken in metal, belly piercing: that’s where the video begins. Pictures on top of each other morphe, far away and up close, it’s dark, the next morning the video continues from a place. It doesn’t have corners yet.
Hidden inside a white flower two red girls gossip. Overlapped and next to one and other placed jello, a confused body of water, face made of pixels, sunset, green, hanging out in the kitchen with someone. The camera is light, everything is huge! The video resembles a whisper, it’s liquid light.
written by Toivo Kouki and Elli Syrjänen
Elli Syrjänen is a visual artist working primarily with photography but also for example with moving image and writing. At the moment she is studying photography at Turku Arts Academy.
