10 MINUTES INSIDE SOMEONE
2017
Three channel video installation
Length 10:36
Photographs from the Exhibition Currents at Galleria Augusta, Suomenlinna Helsinki 2017
10 Minutes Inside Someone is a video landscape of a young persons reflections and the basic questions in life. The artwork is an uncensored and naive line of thought, where the artist leads us from one atmosphere to another, pondering on spirituality, feminism, friendship and memories of disorderly youth events. The diverse thoughts are mixed with popular culture references, reflecting on the present day and youthful ecstasy. With what kind of thoughts does one look for their place in this world? What does the chaotic symphony of an inner speech sound like? And what does it look like?
You can hear the artists voice narrating the thoughts, but the actual fictional character is drawn from Kajetskis personal history and experiences. The visual material has been collected from Kajetskis inner circle and is combined with internet imagery, typical for post internet art. Combined, these two are representative of Kajetskis personal, but at the same time universal ponderings. The play with private and general is also important to the artists general style, which usually combines personal experiences, humor and contradiction.
The narrator jumps from an atmosphere to another without an introduction or warning and doesn’t avoid sensitive subjects or taboos. Sometimes the narrator questions herself and another times she is very black and white, just like a real unpredictable human mind. You can hear the narrators insecurity and how she needs someone to validate her thoughts. Kajetski describes the fictive character: “It’s like she is looking for someone to give value to the questions. Where, how and what is the right way to act?”
You can find art historical references in most of Kajetskis works and with its visual imagery and self-ironical approach 10 Minutes Inside Someone has references to Jon Rafmans and Ryan Trecarts works, to name a few.
“The work is also influenced by Dzaiga Vertov’s experimental movie The Man with the Movie Camera (1929) where Vertov documents life in the Soviet Union. He, as the camera man blends into the surrounding world and the camera is like the artist’s eye. But with editing the diary-like everyday life the artwork creates, the artist can create a reality suited for his intentions, depicting the modern day and its problems.”
Kajetski is intrigued by the contradiction between correctness and humanity and one of the aims of the work is to provoke the viewer to think about more than just what is being said. The thoughts in the work shouldn’t be taken as opinionated arguments, but merely as tools to examine one’s own reactions and trains of thought that are created by them.
/Aura Kuula
Curator, art historian, registrator at Ateneum Art Museum, Finnish National Gallery. One of the founders of Asbestos Art Space gallery, Helsinki