Director, producer, art director, a concept design for The Doll’s House, an experimental, filmed performative work exploring psychology, memory and attachment.
My graduation film emerged as performative practice-based research that focuses on the metaphor of the house and home. The Doll’s House is a filmed performance exploring a macro perspective of the cleaning process of my own childhood Doll’s House. The work was initially inspired by readings of Eckhart Tolle and his ideas on cycles of human attachment, and identification and attachment to their possessions. The conceptual development and research surrounding this work drew on the historical significance of the Doll’s Houses in art and literature, and the consideration of ways to express the potency of its symbolism within Feminism to reflect on class systems and notions of sentimentality, and a further reflection of psychic residue.
The work offers a multitude of potential interpretations, with the symbolic nature of the Doll’s House relating to feminism, classism and sentimental value, in addition to the more common representations of the Doll’s House in psychological/horror-based cinema. Despite the motion of cleaning continuing, the house does not appear to get any cleaner, and the line between repair and damage becomes blurred, rendering the work unsettling and conflicting.
Over my three years of study, my artistic practice has focused on themes that explore a visual language and the unspoken, nonverbal elements of human behaviour. My body of work is rooted in philosophical and psychological research, specifically theoretical approaches drawing from the literature of hauntology and works exploring psychoanalysis. In addition to my experimental work, I have also developed and expanded my curatorial practice. Building on my role in the curatorial team for multiple exhibitions during my second year, my third year has allowed me to continue this role in co-curator roles for a variety of exhibitions, exploring both virtual and physical space in the projects entitled Home Sweet Home, a Virtual Doll’s House exhibition curated within VR and Unity and also the BlackBox Gallery. I will be taking up a post-graduate degree programme of study, Goldsmith’s, University of London, in Contemporary Art Theory.
BA (Hons) Film & Digital Art 
Oona Suomi | Fine Art
