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Strolling in the Villa Gyllenberg Art Museum in Helsinki and pondering on the exhibition title Helene Schjerfbeck: Spirituality in Art, my viewing experience was interrupted or, rather, radically transformed.1 Gazing at the series of self-portraits that Schjerfbeck is most famous for as an artist, made during the final years of her life, I encountered a frame that, in lieu of a painting, featured a video loop: an animated rendition of Schjerfbeck's self-portraits that merged thirteen works into an apparendy seamless unfolding of the artist's different ages, her face transforming from that of an eighteen-year-old to that of an eighty-three-yearold (figures 1 and 2). Encountering Helene-Life of an Artist, museum visitors were faced with a choice between two buttons: either view the video from birth to death as a movie or to run the video backward, viewing the life course retrospectively from death to birth, pausing for every artwork and reflecting on the age of the artist.5 While Me and You-An Adventure in Ourselves ended in 2001, the video was subsequendy incorporated into Heureka's permanent display (figure 3).6 As the production history manifests, the short video originally produced to incite wonder in the context of the science museum and, one might argue, to evoke identification through an emotional experience of the life course has proven its potential as a long-standing popular attraction.