In her exhibition From 6 Feet Under, Hannele Romppanen deals with the invisibility of death and the obscure lack of empathy in our culture through the means of photography, video and performance art.

In our society we are alienated from death by the clinicality of hospitals. With death out of sight, TV entertainment is impregnated with images of corpses: dead bodies are shown in crime scenes as well as on dissection tables, desensitizing the public, while commonly shared tools for dealing with loss and grief become lost in our culture.

The theme of the exhibition arises from a personal experience of loss in the death of the artist's sister and the time spent in hospice care. Romppanen returns four years later to document elements of ”being there”- the intimacy, togetherness and closeness experienced. In addition to the series of photographs taken in the hospice Karina home, photographic material depicting the everyday has found it's place in the exhibition. Romppanen's has compiled family photographs which gain new meaning to the family due to the consuming disease that bereaved them of their family member. As a backdrop to the exhibition, an old photograph of the artist's family is displayed which depicts a portrait of fun-loving “family”, imitating the family photos with grown-up children and retired parents. Borrowed images from everyday life and the world of entertainment, with images documented straight from the television screen which dramatically instrumentalised death and/or mutilated corpses