Antti Laitinen Sold at Auction Prices

Antti Laitinen (1975)

My Island III' (2007) c-type mounted on dibond, number 3 from an edition of 6, 115x115 cm Provenance: Nettie Horn Gallery, London, acquired in 2010. In his series, ‘It’s My Island’, Laitinen builds his own island in the Baltic Sea by dragging two hundred sand bags into the water over a period of three months - using nothing but a spade, sand and sacks. In this repetitive and idiosyncratically absurd performance, Laitinen explores notions of nationality - building his own independent micro-nation inhabited by a single citizen - and questions fundamental issues of citizenship and identity. When the island is built, Laitinen then carefully documents it in a series of large-scale photographs which are noble representations of the beautiful and romantic landscape which is so present in Laitinen’s work. Each photograph revealing different aspects of nature’s emotional influence on the landscape – from a calm and idyllic setting to a foreboding stormy seascape. (Source: press release Nettie Horn Gallery, London )