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Art Antti Laitinen: It's My Island

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Helsinki-based artist Antti Laitinen offers an absurdist take on the notion of property and nationality with his solo exhibition of video, photography and installation work. The artist painstakingly built his own island in the Gulf of Finland out of 200 hand-filled sandbags, and this show is a record of that three-month project of micro-government. Laitinen contrasts his bizarre creation with the serenity of his surrounding landscape; it's the continuous presence of the dramatic Baltic coastline that broadens this odd — and most likely very chilly — experience into a comment on Finnish-ness and on identity as a whole.

– Oliver Spall