2022, Installation; sound piece and whistles (wood, plastic, metal, ceramics, paper and reed)
The work Decoy is part of Leena Saarinen’s ongoing research on languages of humans and other species and their connections, as well as interspecies communication and mimicry. Saarinen has studied decoy whistles used for hunting. She has built whistles that mimic the vocalizations of other animals, especially birds, from different materials and learned how to play them. Making instruments and learning to play them helps her to better study and understand sound as a phenomenon. She also explores the connection between mimicry and empathy, as well as the dark side of empathy; reading someone’s mind with the objective to harm them. In her own work Saarinen tries to find the potential connection between species through empathy and mimicry.
Leena Saarinen (b. 1988) is a visual artist based in Helsinki, Finland. Her practice is multidisciplinary and research based. She works with questions of posthumanism in the age of climate change and mass extinctions. In her work she studies culture, language and the relationship between human and non-human species. Her works have been exhibited in galleries, museums and public spaces in Finland and internationally. She is currently doing her master’s degree in the Academy of Fine Arts in University of the Arts Helsinki in the sculpture department.
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