Paper notes and Pinecones

Solo exhibition in HAM Gallery, Helsinki Art Museum (FI) 2024

*Hanging on their every tiny movement*, 2024 . Photographic paper, colored paper, paper clips, and book “Fifty sounds” by Polly Barton

*A body with more tongues is a mythical creature (Tentative lexicon #1),* 2024. Inkjet prints on photographic paper, aluminum rods

*A body with more tongues is a mythical creature (Tentative lexicon #2),* 2024
Inkjet prints on photographic paper, aluminum rod

On the left *You are in trouble!,* 2024. On the right I am not an idiot, 2024. Aluminum rods, elastic bands, zip ties, tape, colored paper

*You are in trouble!,* 2024. Details. Aluminum rods, elastic bands

*I am not an idiot,* 2024. Aluminum rods, elastic bands, zip ties, tape, colored paper

*Clearly embarrassed*, 2024. Aluminum rods, elastic bands, zip ties, tape

*Always exaggerating* ,2024. Aluminum rods, elastic bands, zip ties, sticky note

*Collections.* Notes and images collected between 2017 and 2024

*Dinner tonight?,* 2024. Aluminum rods, elastic bands, zip ties

*A body with more tongues is a mythical creature (Tentative lexicon #3),* 2024. Inkjet prints on photographic paper.

*Forget Forgot Forgotten*, 2024. Appropriated quote by P. Oliveros, paper, erasure dust.

Still from *Handy tips for forgetful bodies*, 2023 . 4-minute video loop
Directing and performing: Laura Cemin. Cinematography, co-direction, and editing: Roberta Segata.

*Nota Bene*, 2023/2024. Found images from “Supplemento al dizionario Italiano” by Bruno Munari (1963), photographic images, sticky notes, tape

*Chameleons*, 2024. Score for performance in collaboration with Chen Nadler, Daniela Pascual, Jenny Berger Myhre, and Tashi Iwaoka.

*Chameleons*, 2024. Site-specific performance in collaboration with Chen Nadler, Daniela Pascual, Jenny Berger Myhre, and Tashi Iwaoka. Duration: 4h.

I say something as my arms rest at the side of my torso, my fingertips brushing one another–that’s all the movement there is. Microscopic and imperceptible even to myself.
They say we are more rational, concise, practical in our second language. I am just stiff, I am very stiff. Rigida/Impalata/Tesa(?) I can’t find a word that would convey such immobility.

In an attempt to rediscover the lost gesticulation of her native language (Italian), Cemin looks at the process of adaptation that bodies undergo when moving to a different cultural and linguistic landscape. Paper notes and pinecones is a collective archive of movements, an instruction manual, a hybrid grammar of the foreign body.

As part of the exhibition, three live performances took place in the gallery on June 8, 9, and 12, 2024 in collaboration with Tashi Iwaoka, Daniela Pascual, Chen Nadler and Jenny Berger Myhre.
Documentation HERE

Curator: Milja Liimatainen
The exhibition was supported by Kone Foundation, Nordisk Kulturkontakt, Finnish Art Society, Italian Institute of Culture and Oriente Occidente. In 2024, the exhibitions at HAM gallery are supported by the Finnish Heritage Agency.