Faustian Mountain – The artist collective Kunst

We live in a Faustian society, where the core idea is continuous growth. We are chronically insatiable. We trade to get things more easily, more abundantly, and faster. The price of pursuing maximum benefit is unreasonable. Faust has been used as a metaphor for what modern humans are. We are never satisfied with what we have been able to achieve on our own.

The artist collective Kunst’s exhibition Faustian Mountain addresses a world where societal, economic, and geopolitical decisions change the environment in ways that affect everything.

In the exhibition, visitors can step onto a viewing platform and observe a virtual landscape formed by statistics and data streams depicting the state of the world. Household robots, which occasionally make contact, wander in a space filled with low-lying fog. An eight-year landscape unfolds before the viewer. Elsewhere, internet loading delays create new realities. Visitors can lie on a divan and experience a multisensory spatial environment.

The artist collective Kunst is a collaborative unit founded in the spring of 2013. The artists in the Poriginal Gallery exhibition are Christina Holmlund, Pia Paldanius, Sirpa Päivinen, Anu Suhonen, and Julia Weckman. In addition to their independent works and practices, Kunst creates interdisciplinary and performative works together.

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