Eija-Liisa Ahtila's "Human Dramas"

The Present (2001)
"The principal theme of The Present is forgiveness, summarised in the closing statement of each of these five short stories: 'Give Yourself a Present; Forgive Yourself'. The work is loosely based on interviews Ahtila conducted with a number of women who had developed psychosis at some point in their lives."
-- http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/ahtila/about.htm

Eija-Lissa Ahtila, a Finnish artist, has been working on a way to visually articulate things that are often too hard for humans to talk about. Ahtila works with photography, film, video and installation.

"Ahtila has described her work as 'human dramas', fictional narratives that emerge from lengthy periods of research as well as from her own observations and experiences.... In recent work, the border between 'self' and 'other' is investigated as the viewer is invited to peer inside the minds of individuals caught in moments of psychological fragility."

To read about Eija-Lissa Ahtila photography work, check out, http://www.paolocurti.com/ahtila/ahtila.htm .