Johtingeaidnu – The Path Within

The exhibition Johtingeaidnu – The Path Within brings together two worlds: reindeer nomadism in the Arctic Sápmi region and the bioscience on epigenetics. It engages with the concept of shared embodied memories carried within humans, reindeer, and in Johtingeaidnu – the ancestral migratory paths. The exhibition premieres the results of a long-term collaboration between artist-researcher Emilia Tikka, reindeer herder Oula A. Valkeapää, and artist-researcher Leena Valkeapää. The installation consists of films and objects as stories in which migratory paths, along with the bodies that inhabit them, carry traces of pasts and possible futures.

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