Kiasma: Mehen
Welcome to the digital afterlife! Will you perish in real death, will your avatar take your place in reality or will you be lost in an eternal stream of zeros and ones? Joonas Hyvönen’s Mehen is a playable artwork inspired by ancient Egyptian mythology.
Take the time to play the piece. We recommend playing on a computer. Admission is valid for 14 days, and once you click on it for the first time, it is valid 24 hours. After this, admission will no longer work. Do not activate it until you know that you will have time to explore the exhibition.
About the exhibition
Mehen (2024), is an online gamelike artwork by Joonas Hyvönen (b. 1990), and it is inspired by an ancient Egyptian board game, which is interpreted as being related to death and funerals. The game has thought to take the player to the afterlife and back at the moment of death, symbolising rebirth. The exact rules of the game are not known, but its significance is based on archaeological discoveries, including ancient tomb paintings. In Hyvönen’s work, the player navigates a world of abandoned user accounts, on a mission to find a path through the digital afterlife.
Mehen was commissioned for the Kiasma exhibition Feels Like Home and will become part of the Finnish National Gallery’s art collection. Museum visitors will receive a free link to the work during the exhibition. The exhibition Feels Like Home investigates belonging from a variety of perspectives: How do people connect with each other and their environment? The experience of belonging can also be marked by nostalgia for the past or for a place that has been left behind.
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