PEKKA SASSIEverything Is Light 29.3.2025 – 19.4.2025

PEKKA SASSI

Based on my own experiences, I thought for a long time that people don’t dream in colour. I later learned that this is not the case.

I wanted to create a colourful dream of my own in my video work Everything Is Light (2025), while also creating a piece that all viewers could understand.

The images in the work form landscapes and figures that move and breathe as though they were projections. When a world made of sound and an image merge, the elements come to life and a creature is created.

Sometimes the creature seems active and appears to be trying to make contact with the viewer; at other times it turns its gaze inwards and appears just to be waiting for something.

The tracks in my video work are based on improvisations performed either on an electric guitar with effects or with synthesisers.

Looking at the universe from the perspective of human beings and all things animate, we can say that everything we perceive – with any of our senses – was at some point made of light.

Pekka Sassi

Media artist Pekka Sassi (b. 1969) graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki in 2000. His works include experimental sound and video pieces. He has been granted the AVEK Award (2006), the Stina Krooks Foundation grant (2017) and the Maire Gullichsen Prize (2020). Pekka Sassi’s public work Three Colours was completed at the premises of the Finnish National Agency for Education in Helsinki in 2021. Sassi’s works can be found in several collections, including those at the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, the State Art Commission, HAM Helsinki Art Museum and EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art.