Sign language tour: Emergent Properties

A guided tour of Gabriella and Kristian Pesnals exhibition interpreted into Finnish sign language.

The term emergent properties is used in biology as well as other fields to describe how isolated individual parts of a system are not enough to know how the entire system itself functions, like organs in a body.

This also offers an analogy on how we begin to understand our identities as well. The works within this exhibition are inspired by interviews conducted by the pair of artist siblings, Gabriella and Kristian Presnal. The duo presents their artistic research using video, photography, and painting to illustrate the stories told by queer nomadic persons living in Uusimaa.

The artist siblings are Finnish-American and have lived in Finland for the past 6 years. Previously in their childhood they lived in Canada; multiple states in the U.S., and Sweden.