HELSINKI.-Kunsthalle Helsinki presents Kunsthalle Studio 12 May – 10 June 2007: Pink Twins: Pulse. The multimedia works and live performances of Pink Twins have been seen in countless international festivals and exhibitions. The brothers' latest work Pulse will now be seen in Kunsthalle Studio.

"The video works of Pink Twins are explorations into visuality. Their starting point is the visual world that surrounds us: their motifs range from a particle accelerator to the Tunguska in Siberia, UFO sightings and satellite images. Transformed into an audio-visual collage, the images test the boundaries of perception, playing with the viewer's desire both to recognise familiar things, but also to surrender to the work.

The starting point of the four-minute Pulse presented in Kunsthalle Studio is a picture of a Siberian glacier. To begin with, we must note the title of the piece. Pulse, a regular beat or a kind of sudden signal, refers to the pulse that runs through the entire video, it refers to sound and vision united by a common beat. Sometimes the pulse is accompanied by faster rhythms that scratch at the surface, sometimes the viscous tempo of the images seems to drag its heels against it. Nevertheless, the pulse carries one along from the beginning to the end, lending rhythm to the turbulent view, now seeming very much like a landscape – a tornado or blizzard – now merely a surface – an ultrasound image or simply a destroyed film.

Like other works by Pink Twins, Pulse is dominated also by a powerful sense of tension or unresolvability. Because the works derive from existing imagery, they may be considered as arresting and deconstructing the contemporary flow of images. On the other hand, the image and sound collages also serve to muddle existing imagery by adding new layers to it. Pulse reflects unresolvability also by utilising the conflict between continuity and discontinuity: on the one hand, the even pulse of the work unites the flow of images, on the other, it serves as a disruptive element by revealing views and hiding them again. For the viewer, the tempo seems both slow enough and just a little bit too fast. There is also tension between surface and depth: Pulse succeeds in disrupting the impression of two-dimensionality so that at times the projection screen really does seem like a screen, or a mask. What is it that lies behind, or is this all there is?" Saara Hacklin, Researcher in Aesthetics

Specialising in video art and electronic music, the artist duo Pink Twins (Vesa Vehviläinen b.1974 and Juha Vehviläinen b.1978) has participated in numerous group exhibitions in Finland and abroad. They have given live performances since 1998, appearing at international festivals, including the Venice Biennale in 2005. This year work by Pink Twins is presented in the Repeat All exhibition that tours Athens, São Paulo, Buenos Aires and Santiago de Chile. A more extensive solo exhibition by the duo will be seen next year at Forum Box in Helsinki and in La Sala Naranja in Valencia. A comprehensive review of the production of Pink Twins is available on a recently published double DVD collection.