Eeva Siivonen’s experimental moving image practice engages with strategies of documentary, essay, and found footage filmmaking. She employs these strategies to construct affective and immersive installations and single-channel works that speak to the experience of dislocation and fractured relationship to body, language, and place. By excavating both personal and collective memory, and the artist's embodied experience, her practice traces the deep yet precarious connections between human and nonhuman bodies and ecosystems; connections that are constantly both found and severed. In her multifaceted work, she aims to resist separation between self and other, human and nonhuman, and living and nonliving. Haunted by themes of personal and collective loss, her practice embraces the impossibility of gaining definite knowledge of ourselves and others—and our place in the world—and seeks to create space for empathy and reverence. In her recent work, she has focused on the personal and collective experiences of ecological grief and solastalgia. 

 

Siivonen exhibits her work internationally at film festivals and gallery exhibitions. Recent screenings of her single-channel works include Antimatter [Media Art] in Victoria, BC, MicroActs in London, UK, San Francisco Cinematheque’s Crossroads festival, DOBRA International Festival of Experimental Cinema, Transient Visions Festival of Moving Image, Barcelona International Short Film and Video Festival, Bideodromo International Experimental Film Festival and Black Maria Film Festival, among others. She has received MFA degrees in Video Art from Syracuse University, where she studied as a Fulbright scholar, and Documentary Film Directing from Aalto University in Helsinki. In 2022, she also received a studio-based Ph.D. in Art and Visual Culture from Western University in Ontario, Canada. She is originally from Helsinki, Finland and is currently residing in London, Ontario. 

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Contact: eevaleenasiivonen@gmail.com 

www.vimeo.com/eevasiivonen