Equilux, 2023–, 4k six-channel video installation

Equilux draws Aino Aalto and Virginia Woolf into dialogue through the structure of a single day. Filmed at their former homes on equilux, the moment twice yearly when day and night are exactly equal, the work forms a double portrait of two women, of two houses and of the same day, which occurs twice. The six channels are drawn from the multiple perspectives in The Waves, in which Woolf imagined the lives of the six characters so interwoven that they continue each other. The work traces numerous historical threads, object relationships and recurring forms, through which separate histories find unexpected convergence across time and distance.

Filmed with permission of the National Trust and Alvar Aalto Foundation. Supported by Creative Australia, Arts Council England and the Finnish Institute for the UK & Ireland.