Charlotte Clermont
Originally from Canada, Charlotte Clermont is based in Helsinki after completing her master’s degree in Time and Space from Academy of Fine Arts of the University of the Arts Helsinki. Her most recent film du soleil, que ça existe, has been nominated by Nordic and Baltic Young Artist Award (2024) and is selected for upcoming exhibitions at Forum Box (Helsinki), and Gallery Hippolyte (Helsinki). Her work has been shown internationally in film festivals, such as Fracto (Germany), Festival des cinémas différents et expérimentaux de Paris (France), Edinburgh International Film Festival (Scotland), Festival ECRĀ (Brazil), 25th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival (Czechia), Beijing International Short Film Festival (China), and Saigon Experimental Film Festival (Vietnam). She has been an artist in residence in Japan, Italy, Finland, Latvia, Estonia, and the United States.
With a background in analogue experimental film, my work explores the temporal dimensions of how the body shapes, preserves and creates what we perceive as reality. Recently, I have been interested in Marguerite Duras’s practice of rewriting her own works to reshape them with new emotions and temporalities. I approach rewriting not as a simple reprise but as a translation of memory—a recomposition through a displaced gaze and body. For the residency at Copper Leg, I will be using the black-and-white segments from my previous film du soleil, que ça existe to generate monochromatic color images. This analogue technique—where a negative and a positive strip of film run together through the camera—creates direct optical contact between two layers of emulsion. From these black-and-white materials, new colors emerge depending on how light interacts with differing film densities, color filters on the camera lens, and chemistry.
At Copper Leg, she worked with black-and-white segments from her film du soleil, que ça existe to generate monochromatic colour images using 16mm analogue techniques.
Welcome to a 16mm analogue film screening.
Katariin Mudist
Katariin Mudist’s creative practice operates at the intersection of materiality, humour, and social observation, focusing on how humanity, the body, and norms manifest through form, texture, and process. She works intuitively with a range of materials, allowing them to guide the development of the work and paying particular attention to what is unfinished, uncomfortable, or still in the process of becoming. On January 24th, everyone is welcome to an open studio event, where Katariin will present her work process, methods, and current projects.
Katariin Mudist is one of the winners of the Young Sculptor Award 2025. The laureates were announced at the opening of the Award exhibition in February 2025 at Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia (EKKM).
Since 2021, Copper Leg has had the honour of supporting the winner of the Young Sculptor Award with a month-long residency, providing an opportunity for further creative development in a serene setting at Rae Schoolhouse in Vaskjala village.
Photos by Ott Kattel