"Phantasms" -series presents allegories of the controversy of looking at pornography. The photographs have been produced in co-operation with a Finnish academic project called PornAcademy. The academics have offered their face for the artist to use it as a canvas for the works.
The series "Innocence" and "Survivors 12/26/04" refer to the history of art as well as to the intimate history of the posing people. The past and the present are intertwined especially in "Survivors" which presents two unvictimised survivors of the tsunami 2004. This series refers to the works of Yves Klein yet the location of the "subject" is somewhat different.
"Family-Kinship" -series presents a phantasm of coupling and generations.
The body of work at hand is my latest solution to the problem: How to combine photographic presence with a painterly image. The works deal with the presence of a person in a piece of an artwork and the presence of a viewer in the act of looking. My aim is reciprocity of the spectator and that of the artwork. I have examined these topics previously by painting and by experimenting with combinations of oil-paint, video and photography.
The works are either paintings, photographs or performances depending on the point of view of the spectator. Three different layers are interlaced in the works. The first is the photographed person. The second is the painting done onto his/her face or onto the body. The third layer consists of the poses, gestures or the performance by the modelling person.
