Saara Hyvärinen

The last sentences, 2025
video artworks at Puijonlaakso and Neulamäki libraries

A library is an institution of classification and order, but also a place of constant rearrangement. In a world of great order, chaos, or the possibility of it, is always lurking nearby. For this work, only the last sentences of books have been read. Randomly selected sentences are rearranged to form the soundtrack of the video artwork and combined with moving images.

The last sentences of novels and short stories are often carefully considered and meticulously composed to fit the artistic whole. In this work, they are detached from their original context, revealing language's ability to constantly create new meanings and realities. Moving images add a new dimension to the potential story. At the background of the work is the observation that the human mind tends to seek meaning and order even where it may not necessarily exist.

Saara Hyvärinen's main medium is the moving image, but in recent years she has expanded her means of expression to include collages and other more craft-like methods. She is also interested in different soundscapes, texts, and the possibilities of language, and especially in combining all of these into her work. Her works are often site-specific, constructed for a specific space. Saara Hyvärinen sees art as a dialogue with different materials, whether they be moving images, sound, colour, or language. At the same time, for Hyvärinen art is continuous observation and wonderment of the world and of being in the world. Saara Hyvärinen graduated with a Master's degree in Fine Arts in 2018. She lives and works in Joensuu and Tohmajärvi.