“Something is constantly raining down, hopes, expectations, something you ordered, something you didn’t. The exhibition deals with the flood of information, material and expectations, and the feelings they cause. Should we be grateful, or should we feel inadequate?

The works depict the immaterial world that largely determines our actions; feelings, images, perceptions and desires, with concrete reality almost completely fading into the background. 

The exhibition was motivated by a consumerist society, the suspicion instilled by uncertain times, and the digging of one’s own navel that stems from these. I cannot help but notice how an escalating atmosphere can make an individual frantically search for their niche, and myself keep a defensive monologue in my head when making choices. Social pressure – whether it is a momentary hype or an unwavering tradition – can turn casting one’s own mold into an overly hasty game of chairs, which will inevitably lead to “to stretching, constriction and bulging. You can gather around you something that comforts you, or wake up in the middle of something that has accumulated without you noticing.”

— Karkki Mäkelä

Karkki Mäkelä (b. 1982), is a visual artist living and working in Tampere, who paints, sculpts and makes graphics.

The work has been supported by the Finnish Cultural Foundation.

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