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Nina Lassila

Lucid Dreaming

Fiction expérimentale | hdv | noir et blanc | 6:45 | Finlande, Belgique | 2014

Something has happened and society as we know it does not function anymore. In this video I portray situations of an apocalyptic nature. The video is based on my thoughts of a possible future and on a lucid dream I had this year. What and how will survival function in case we have to live through it? And can I trust the ones I used to trust?

Nina Lassila is a visual artist working mainly with video, performance and writing. She was born 1974 in Helsinki Finland but lives and works currently in Belgium and Berlin. Nina Lassila has a MFA from The Valand Academy of Arts in Gothenburg SE. In many of her works she deals with questions of identity – specifically identity affected by social barriers, conventions based on gender and upbringing and cultural differences. Her other bodies of work explore issues of supernatural phenomena, art and economic structures. She has taken part in several group shows and video festivals internationally. i.e The Istanbul Biennial, Rencontres Internationals Paris / Berlin / Madrid, SHE DEVIL V Macro Museum Rome, XV Art Fair Mänttä , Reykjavik Arts Festival, Kassel Documentary & Video art festival, Reality Check TSSK Trondheim , LOOP Barcelona, Une Chambre á soi at Gallery Christophe Gaillard in Paris, The Bristol Biennial. Education: Swedish Polytechnics FIN 1994-1997, School of Photography & film Gothenburg SE 2000-2002, Valand School of Fine Arts (MFA) 2004-2006, Guest at ENSAD Paris 2009.