2017-2018, 35 mm film / transferred to 4K, 12min 39 sec, stereo, 5.1 (in relation to the marble sculpture Retractor Hydrobag) Somnivm, 35mm film transferred to 4K, 12min, 39sec, color, sound, installation view, Beaconsfield Gallery, London, 2018 “Kina has chosen to focus on the history of the quarries from which this famous marble … Read more
Akiya is film work, which deals with phenomenon of desolation of urban built environment. The issue of empty apartments and houses in contemporary Tokyo is the background of this Noh theatre inspired work, where spirits are typical characters. The medium and the machine are treated as a performing other. The work does not show … Read more
2018, marble, 90 x 95 x 26 cm Retractor Hydrobag is a tool of its own destruction. It offers insight to both classical statuary and the industrial methods of the marble quarries. The sculpture is a replicate of an iron retractor hydrobag – a tool employed in the quarrying industry to separate up to 200 … Read more
2017, Triptych, archival pigment prints, 107 x 80 cm each Score of Arr. for a Scene is a triptych of sheet music prints containing the sonic structures, details and forms of sound achieved by the foley artists in the film Arr. for a Scene. With the methods of notation Kina explores the structures and … Read more
“The sonic force of cinema’s most famous murder scene is investigated.Two foley artists recreate Hitchcock’s shower sequence, deconstructing the associations of aural signifiers, and the synesthetic power of sound. Jonna Kina contextualize this uncanny phenomenon — the “trans-sensory” quality of sound – within both Kina’s oeuvre, as well as other historical and contemporary works inside … Read more
2013, Series of 26 photographs, 38 x 38cm, archival pigment print, framed ‘ The series Foley Objects involves a game of synaesthesia. In this work Kina plays with viewers’ expectations and with the conceptual delimitations of the photographic medium. The words refer to the sound generated by the objects that are portrayed. “Foley” means the … Read more