Structurally multi modal, my practice deals with ethical self-contradictions and unethical desires. With sociality as a crucial material, I also turn to text, installation, sculpture and performance to stage theories and image worlds thick with frenzy and performativity. I’ve always used art to extract information from the cultural blindspots of my context, or in other words – its hotspots of conflicting values and emotions. The resonance of inconsistency so intimately linked with a desire for clarity sustains my explorations, and becomes at once a form of self-harm and a remedy, a pharmakon.
jaanaalakoski@gmail.com
Stockholm/London