Huxflux, 2019
Through performing in a desert landscape, Anne Rantakylä contemplates the impermanent nature of all things. The series Huxflux consists of 42 black and white photographs. The images where the figure appears simultaneously are the result of a double exposure. The single negative is compensated in exposure time to avoid overexposure, resulting her figure to be transparent in the photographs.
The series includes three different sets of performances. In the first one Rantakylä placed her own body in front of the camera in the desert landscape. In the second one Rantakylä dragged a basalt rock through the desert landscape, documenting the process of the rock swiping the sand and the ever changing sky. She stood behind the rock, so that the rock swiped her steps. In the third performance she dug a whole to herself, an homage to Keith Arnatt’s self burial. The black cord in the photographs is the remote release cable that she is holding in her hand.
The book Huxflux, 100 pages on Munken Lynx
As part of the project Rantakylä created a book with poems and photographs called Huxflux. The book was composed by tracing words through translucent paper from five different source books on philosophy and science to discuss the relationships between the individual, the collective and the universe. The book concludes to questions of time, which is a recurring subject in her artistic practice. From each source book, she chose 15 pages randomly. From those 15 pages, she then traced words intuitively to create the poems.