DanTommi

Category: Selected Work

  • Big Blu, 2023

    Big Blu, 2023

    Big Blu is an ongoing project exploring the encounter between two interconnected yet distinct realms: the world above the water’s surface and the submerged world below.

    Presented as a solo exhibition on the island of Vrångö in the southern archipelago of Gothenburg in 2023, the works span pastel drawings, digitally manipulated images and 3D-printed sculptures. Across these different forms, the seahorse moves between physical and digital states — translated, fragmented and re-materialised through different representational systems

    Gallery View
    I´ll be back
    dry pastel on paper 200x120cm
    Detail
    detail of the 3D printed object
    Tango charcoal on paper 200x140cm
    Tango,200×140 cm Charcoal and 3D printed object
    Detail
    Talking to me? 200x140cm
    dry pastel on paper
    Popeye 200x120cm
    charcoal on paper
  • The Walls Within, 2014

    The Walls Within, 2014

    In 2014, marking the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, I realized a site-specific sound work in Berlin. The work was based on field recordings collected on site during my time in the city and subsequently edited into a sound piece titled The Walls Within.
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  • The Singer, 2012

    The Singer, 2012

    To my grandmother, dressmaker Evi Alfredsson 1901 – 1966, whom I never met.

    The Singer (2012). Photograph of a sewing machine positioned on the shoreline of the Turku archipelago, Finland, facing west toward Sweden. The work combines sound, image, and maritime orientation to address migration, memory, and intergenerational labor, forming an early exploration of themes later developed in my artistic research.

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  • Sa med hans röst, 2009

    Sa med hans röst, 2009

    In 2009, I realized a drama-based sound installation in collaboration with Norwegian writer Jon Fosse and producer Svante Löwenborg. The work was produced for an annual festival at Festplassen in Bergen and later presented in Gothenburg. In this project, Jon Fosse performed the reading himself, voicing the female role from his play Og aldri skal vi skiljast (And Never Shall We Be Separated).

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  • Korsgrundet, 2003

    Korsgrundet, 2003

    A site-specific work, 2003 – An Installation for Sound and Sea

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  • Sten i glashus, 2001

    Sten i glashus, 2001

    I created this 3D video installation in the cube located just outside Stora Teatern on Avenyn in Gothenburg, shortly after the protests during the EU summit in 2001, often referred to as the Gothenburg Riots. The cube was a room made entirely of glass, with simultaneous projections on all sides.

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  • I samtal med Gud, 2000

    I samtal med Gud, 2000

     This video was made for the millennium exhibition at the museum for the modern art in Helsinki Finland.

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  • Unesta kaiku, 1998

    Unesta kaiku, 1998

    Spatial sound installation · sculpture · digitally composed stereo sound.

    A sculptural figure is positioned between two large loudspeakers facing one another across the space. The soundtrack consists of the voices of a woman and a man producing intense, animal-like screams and vocal sounds.

    The sound was digitally created and mixed specifically for stereo. Different material in the left and right channels creates movement between the two speakers, making the voices appear to travel, collide and shift across the space above and around the figure. The loudspeakers therefore function not only as playback equipment but as physical elements defining the acoustic and sculptural space of the installation.

    The contrast between the static figure and the visceral sound creates a psychologically charged space in which the source and location of the voices remain unstable.

    LISTEN — ORIGINAL STEREO MIX, 1998
    Contains intense human screaming. Please lower your volume before playing. Headphones recommended for the stereo spatial effect.

    • Exhibition: Rosolli – Finnish Artists’ 103rd Exhibition
    • Venue: Kerava Art Museum / Klondyke House, Finland
    • Year: 1998

  • Kerro kerro…, 1990

    Kerro kerro…, 1990

    In 1990, I participated in the Lahti AV Biennale in Finland with Kerro kerro…. The title draws on the Finnish version of the familiar “Mirror, mirror…” phrase, using kerro — “tell” — to invoke the mirror as something asked to reveal or foretell.

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