Self-Portrait

Self-Portrait (2010) is an installation for which I photographed every single object I own — 3,328 objects in total.

I had been thinking for some time about how to address overconsumption, and particularly the vast number of objects that are produced and then discarded. While reading We Were Consumers (2009) by Roope Mokka and Aleksi Neuvonen, I came across the estimate that an average Finnish family owns at least 10,000 different objects. This sparked the idea of documenting every object I then owned. What would these objects say about me? Did they hold any importance — and if so, to whom? What will happen to all of this after I am gone? The work is humorous yet unsettling, looking not only at consumption, but at what we leave behind.