Current Female Presidents (3/2001) 2001

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The work presents six current women presidents from Sri Lanka, Ireland, Latvia, Panama, Finland and the Philippines. A collage compiled out of images found from the Internet represents each president. The colourful collages are contrasted with a black-and-white wall drawing of the map of the world, in which countries with a female head of state are marked in grey. The work was inspired by the election of Finland’s first woman president Tarja Halonen in March 2000. Peripheral, small countries with female presidents appear like pebbles in a vast ocean.

Current Female Presidents (3/2001)
Six DDI colour prints on aluminium, 120 x 80 cm each, wall drawing

Chandrika Kumaratunga, Sri Lanka 1994 – Mary McAleese, Ireland 1997 – Vaira Vike-Freiberga, Latvia 1999 – Mireya Moscoso, Panama 1999 – Tarja Halonen, Finland 2000 – Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, Philippines 2001 –

Produced for Platform of Humankind, 49th Venice Biennale and supported by FRAME Finnish Fund for Art Exchange

Current Female Presidents (10/2001)
Seven DDI colour prints on aluminium, 120 x 80 cm each, wall drawing

Chandrika Kumaratunga, Sri Lanka 1994 – Mary McAleese, Ireland 1997 – Vaira Vike-Freiberga, Latvia 1999 – Mireya Moscoso, Panama 1999 – Tarja Halonen, Finland 2000 – Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, Philippines 2001 – Megawati Sukarnoputri, Indonesia, 2001 –

Produced for Nykyiset naispresidentit, Kluuvin galleria, Helsinki

Installation photograph: Rainer Iglar / Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck