TAmpere

Do you do everything yourself? Yeah, and it shows. Make an attempt at being original, I do. Fail or not. Cheers!

Terminator bitch.

Portraits of female convicts, 2015-2022

Madam, you look like a female Buddha or a lemon tree.

Killer, acrylic on canvas, 2022

Evolving face in front.

Images from online mugshots of women, an ongoing process of drawings and paintings, pencil on paper and acrylic on canvas. Depicting the changing face, controlled and uncontrolled, interested in the unmanipulated face, face turning into something else virtually, an avatar, a character, mess of pigment but reminding of human. Are we erasing the human? Process which doesn’t try to achieve perfection of the face, the painting is not perfect, it is a testing site as human seems to be today.

2008

Feed a hungry child.

Feed a hungry child. Donate to school feeding programme.

Not adopting any method to be faster but clearer. Not adjusting according to what is. Not adopting any method to be faster, not adjusting myself according to what is, but still I am.

Not adopting any method to be faster but clearer. Not adjusting according to what is. Not adopting any method to be faster, not adjusting myself according to what is, but still I am.

drop something, pick it up
drop something, pick it up
drop something, pick it up

turn the lock, open the door
turn the lock, open the door
turn the lock, open the door

move the chair, sit on it
move the chair, sit on it
move the chair, sit on it

sit on a chair, straighten your back
sit on a chair, straighten your back
sit on a chair, straighten your back

do it backwards, open your mouth
do it backwards, think about your mouth
do it backwards, show me your tongue

Lumiére is a girl in jeans

Close, 2015 (videos exploring art and women)

LUMIÈRE IS A GIRL IN JEANS
Lumière a girl in jeans, look at the light. Where do you place your hands? 
He asked if I had gone any further. 
How far do you want me to go? 
What do you think I should find? Is it something particular?

I try to measure every word and I realise it is not enough, because then I am not me, but trying to please someone else. 

Vulva is a door. It is a sow and woman riding it. She lifting her skirt with dagger in her hand. Sight chases the demons away. Pit of chastity, of virtue, entry, passage way, vestibule, horns of Uterus, Fallobian tubes, Interforamireum, space between two holes, Genitalis Mueliebris Ambitus. There was a time when female genitalia had no shame, women didn’t have to be ashamed of their bodies.

To take a dip into hellish visual reality, attacked by refined junk. Negativity in the absolute, positive push: finished, perfected, brushed and polished images. Wrappings and packages, boxes, bags, plastics to burst
coverings of great delicacy, of something to want, desirable ones, items to have. Female body is strictly regulated possession, it is under conscious and cruel use of power. We monitor consciously and unconsciously bodies of ours and others to fit in. It is obsessive and means are never enough. This is an everyday topic, topic of attraction and what kind of options we have and are given.

TAmpere

sisältöjä

Sisältöjä

Language

Language

Language of repeating clichés
Language of beauty
Language of aesthetics
Language of banality
Language of architecture
Language of concrete
Language of living
Language of taking the bus
Language of loving
Language of walking
Language of getting home
Language of aggression
Language of stigma
Language of sleeping
Language of violence
Language of hitting
Language of doing the dishes
Language of forgetting them
Language of dating out
Language of passing out
Language of dressing up
Language of being alive
Language of eating
Language of thinking
Language of solitude
Language of looking
Language of having sex
Language of celibacy
Language of an old man
Language of existing
Language of a riot
Language of revolution.