Laura Horelli’s video installations address subjects related to memory, loss and identity. The narrative is often personal, but includes an analytical and expansive dimension. Central to the work is the absence / presence of Horelli’s mother, who died in 1987. Multiple perspectives are created by the use of various literary sources: extracts from diaries, letters, interviews and the artist’s own recollections. Often there is interplay between voice-over and family photographs. Other pieces have appropriated TV-footage of a children’s cooking program, Super 8 film recordings of places in Berlin and Los Angeles or taped testimonies. Through the act of looking closely, the artist attempts to create something else from the existing material.

Laura Horelli (born 1976, Helsinki) lives and works in Berlin. She graduated from Städelschule, Frankfurt and the Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki in 2001. Horelli’s work has been exhibited internationally at the 49^th and 53^rd Venice Biennales; Manifesta 5, San Sebastian; Gwanju Biennale; Kiasma, Helsinki; n.b.k., Berlin; Ludlow38, New York; Kunsthaus Bregenz; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Gasworks, London; Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck and Goethe-Institut Nairobi. Horelli was a visiting professor at the University of Fine Arts, Berlin in 2007. In 2011 she received The Hanna Höch Prize for Young Artists from the City of Berlin. She was recently awarded a 5-year working grant from the Arts Council of Finland. Horelli is represented by Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin.