“Before the police told me on the phone that my dad had died, I realized nothing would be the same again. That song was playing in the background. Still ten years later, hearing it has a strong emotional impact on me.”
Daddy’s Girl (Hopeless Attempt not to Cry Listening to That Song) (2008)
“Me and my mother are very close. A sudden herniated disc made us even closer in 2010. The back pain was so terrible she couldn’t walk on her own for almost a year. Our roles started to change. I became the caretaker and she is more and more dependent on me. We started to process our fears of pain and helplessness. I made a series of work titled Temporarily Out Of Order in 2010. It consisted of drawings and a video. In the video she practiced her physical therapy exercises on a stage wearing a tutu. She appears very cute and amusing but at the same time one can relate to her constant pain through the slow, clumsy repetition.”
Temporarily Out of Order (2010)
Every Day Is a Bonus (2009)
We All Need Someone (2013)
“The stereotype of the Finnish men is they are shy but honest alcoholics who drink their Finlandia vodka from their Iittala design glasses, covered in Marimekko, wearing their Nokia rubber boots while NOT talking on their Nokia phones. Oh, and they love their sauna of course! Finnish men don’t sweet-talk, or say much at all for that matter. At least this is the stereotype. I wonder if the younger generation is different.
A hundred young men sit in the sauna squeezed in next to each other, forming a surface of bare skin. The camera is rolling. The viewer will see the individual as the men start reacting to the heat and leave one by one.”
Portrait of a Young Man (2010)
Heta Kuchka
This Is Not a Place 