SUNDAY

Photograph and text installation, 2019

The text is from the Latin Bible: The Vulgate, from the book of Genesis and it translates as: and then he said: “Let me go, for the day has broken.” But Jacob said: “I will not let you go unless you bless me.” The text is taken from the story of Jacob, where he wrestles with a stranger. Eventually the man reveals that Jacob has indeed wrestled with God. In the end Jacob says: “I saw God face-to-face, and yet my life was spared.” (Genesis 32:24-30)

Aurora is a Latin word and it means daybreak.

Christ is not found in clinging to scraps of evidence. The work is as sorrowful, as devoted and as yearning as the practice of keeping relics. The evidence, the debris of death becomes precious because it is the only sign left of the beloved presence of the sacred.

Exhibited at Project Room, Helsinki