RITA JOKIRANTA mainly works with moving image, photography and installations, but also with light and sound; she also may include photographs, color filters or items in the installations. In recent years, she has focused on experimental multichannel video installations and large-scale projection mapping projects.

Her poetic and meditative art frequently explores the dynamic between image, event and interpretation. The viewer’s own interpretation has always been an essential aspect of her work, whether in video or photography. Images always contain a narrative. And yet we all tell this story in our own way, and she challenges us to reflect and to find new interpretations. Also the unreliability and fragmentation of memories, the narrativity of images and its changes, and how images represent the real world and how our world is interpreted through images are subjects that interest her. The videos may carry a story but sometimes it can only be seen as episodic fragments of simultaneously shown different events. Some projects have been more documentary-based with subjects such as migration, climate crisis and seascapes, yet telling the story on several levels.

Since 1989, Rita Jokiranta’s works have been shown in numerous solo and group shows in Finland, Scandinavia, elsewhere in Europe, and in the United States and Canada. She has also made several public artworks, and is represented in a number of important collections. She currently lives and works in Mariehamn, the Åland Islands, Finland.