(Image: Wallington Walk, Henna Asikainen, Photo Credit: Janina Sabaliauskaite)
henna asikainen
Finnish artist Henna Asikainen creates work that questions our human relationship with nature, and the complex social and ecological issues that emerge from this. Our work with Henna has been an ongoing relationship, beginning with a D6 research residency in 2017 responding to the 2016 EU referendum and evolving into commissions, events and a series of participatory walks with community groups.
Henna's work explores the experience of displacement and migration, using a collaborative methodology throughout specific sites and communities. Created through a process of engagement with migrant and refugee communities within our English landscape, Henna produces work to explore what constitutes the sense of security and belonging that we call ‘home’ and how this might be built though cultural hospitality.
We worked with Henna to produce Forage (2017), Delicate Shuttle (2018), and most recently a participatory walk at Wallington (April 2019). Find out more below about our journey with Henna, and how the projects have developed as part of There is Beauty in this Journey.
Henna's work explores the experience of displacement and migration, using a collaborative methodology throughout specific sites and communities. Created through a process of engagement with migrant and refugee communities within our English landscape, Henna produces work to explore what constitutes the sense of security and belonging that we call ‘home’ and how this might be built though cultural hospitality.
We worked with Henna to produce Forage (2017), Delicate Shuttle (2018), and most recently a participatory walk at Wallington (April 2019). Find out more below about our journey with Henna, and how the projects have developed as part of There is Beauty in this Journey.
forageForage was commissioned following Henna's 2017 research residency with us, which called for artists to consider their relationship with Europe. >>
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delicate shuttleDelicate Shuttle was an installation of thousands of white poplar leaves, that wove together a tapestry of fragmented and foraged experiences, presented as part of the Great Exhibition of the North, Refugee Week and the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018. >>
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In conversation in recognition of world refugee dayIn recognition of World Refugee Day 2019, Henna reflects upon her practice and the latest iteration of her ongoing participatory project with newly arrived communities at the National Trust site, Wallington. >>
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