Videoteos laatukuvana / A Videowork as a Genre Picture

Abstract

This exposition consists of a 22-minute video piece, Aamu (Morning, 2013), and an essay titled "Videoteos laatukuvana" ("A videowork as a genre picture"). The video shows a family at breakfast. The essay views the piece as a contemporary genre picture — an interior painting depicting everyday life. The whole process reflects the many different ways in which art history can serve as material for contemporary art. In the text the words, too, take on a special, tangible, material form.