I’m Iivari 🙋 (b. 2000 in Helsinki) the son of a make up artist and an engineer, former magician, serious fun haver and visual artist based in the Hague.
I focus on observing 👀 the conditions upholding contemporary societal relations and narrating these observations through photographic 🤳 installations and by distributing zines (sometimes used as toiletpaper). Through transferring, borrowing and stealing 🤑
I present speculative narratives and cultural misinterpretations to defamiliarize 💫 the viewer, encouraging them to reflect 🕳 on societal power relations. In my practice I transpose ideas and methods of the dialectical theater movement of the early and mid 20th century to the domain of visual arts, by placing social ontology to dialogue with the medium of photography.
Let me know what YOU think we could do together!
I focus on observing 👀 the conditions upholding contemporary societal relations and narrating these observations through photographic 🤳 installations and by distributing zines (sometimes used as toiletpaper). Through transferring, borrowing and stealing 🤑
I present speculative narratives and cultural misinterpretations to defamiliarize 💫 the viewer, encouraging them to reflect 🕳 on societal power relations. In my practice I transpose ideas and methods of the dialectical theater movement of the early and mid 20th century to the domain of visual arts, by placing social ontology to dialogue with the medium of photography.
Let me know what YOU think we could do together!