V01D Plushies (2022-ongoing), creatures from the end of the world, are comfort buddies that provide hope for overturning the looming future and mascots for facing the present moment. Bond with these beings, as they are meant as transitional objects in living through the forthcoming environmental changes and thus help cope with the evident losses we are about to endure.
Each character has been created as a response to material and immaterial extinctions that we are likely to experience, if radical changes to the way we as humans relate to our surroundings do not take place. As such, the digitally sculpted V01D Plushies are not created only of the more typical materials for toys, such as fabric and plastic, but also of unlikely and imagined substances such as ozone, liquid petroleum, hopes and dreams. The characters are depictions of processes where technology, industry, labour, human emotions and aspirations, and natural phenomena are intermingled.
The work is presented below as an audiovisual installation held at Luonnos, Helsinki, for the summer of 2025.
