Alexander Salvesen ja Walter Sallinen: Metropolitan Blinds

Metropolitan Blinds is an audiovisual sculpture and exhibition by visual artist Alexander Salvesen and sound artist Walter Sallinen, exploring the divided relationship with nature.

The multi-channel video and sound installation, equipped with a motorized venetian blind, investigates parallel realities created by double exposure and the individual’s role as a boundary between two opposing worlds. The blinds symbolize a conscious decision to turn a blind eye. 

What is revealed within people when they close their eyes? What seeps through ignorance? The work delves into the complex human desire to possess nature and the power structures entangled in it.

The motorized venetian blind function as a dissecting, unifying, and transparent kinetic element, allowing the projected video material on the blinds to appear alternately whole and fragmented into horizontal lines. 

Similarly, the spatial soundscape of the piece is dissected into spectral slits, moving between recognizable soundscapes and digitally deconstructed abstraction. This interplay creates an audiovisual dialogue between sound and video.

MUU Helsinki Contemporary Art Centre

15.-23.3.2025

Tue-Fri 12.00-17.00

Sat-Sun 12.00-16.00

Free entry