”Part of my restlessness was due to the feeling that I did not belong, or perhaps I felt I belonged everywhere/nowhere. It has inspired my to see and experience new places.”
– Petra Lindholm
”Simply put, my heart is in Finland, but my life is in Sweden. However, I love Stockholm too much to ever relocate from there. That is why I don’t really belong anywhere. Perhaps art is for me a place where I can make my home again and again.”
– Anna Järvinen
Petra Lindholm and Anna Järvinen share the experience of living between two languages and cultures. Their first collaboration, the video installation Tur och retur (2018), was born on a boat trip they took between Stockholm and Helsinki. The work explores travelling between two countries on mental, linguistic and physical levels.
Visual artist Petra Lindholm (b. 1973) was born in the Swedish-speaking minority of Karjaa in Finland. She currently lives in Småland in South Sweden. Her main mediums are video, sound and textile. Musician, visual artist and teacher Anna Järvinen was born in 1970 in Helsinki. She has lived in Sweden since she was six. She currently lives and works in Täby outside Stockholm, where she writes, paints, draws and composes. In Finland Anna Järvinen is best known as a musician for her songs Helsinki and for Nuori ja kaunis she performs with Olavi Uusivirta.