Aja Lund: Confirmation machine

The project OBJECT ME sheds light on passionate collecting, as well as our consumption and production society, where both humans and objects take turns being in focus.
Objects, which sometimes take over our lives and sometimes assist us, are both a threat and an opportunity. We humans are nearly dependent on productive machines. Moreover, we try to make machines produce humanity.
In the depicted devices, function has been set aside in favor of imagination — but then again, isn’t the power and possibility of imagination one of the most essential functions?

About the artist
Aja Lund (b. 1979, Nykarleby) is a photographer and artist living in Jakobstad, Finland. After BA-studies in photography 2019 she published the book “I am a collector, I want more!” and has had nine solo exhibitions. After completing her MA studies at Novia UAS in 2022, she continues to collect collectors and objects, throwing herself between the true and the imagined, the ruled and the free, the thought and the intuitive, the dead and the living.

By purchasing this print, you are donating 10 € to forest protection

The Association of Photographic Artists is participating in the Finnish Natural Heritage Foundation´s (Luonnonperintösäätiö) campaign that is raising funds for the Art Forest (Taiteen metsä). The artist donates 5 € and the Association of Photographic Artists doubles the donation.