Against Marginalization, Pro Equality

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Exhibition Femina – 2022 has opened. Ulla Karttunen’s artwork named Non-Booked Face is showcased at the show, organized by Gallerium and powered by @Biafarin platform. 

The international exhibition Femina – 2022 focuses on gender equality, women’s freedom and rights and violence against women. The show opened at International Women’s Day, March 8, and continues until April 8, 2022. To learn more, please visit: https://www.gallerium.art/femina-2022?AW=AW127136226

Ulla Karttunen: Non-Booked Face, 2018, digital painting, pigment on acrylic and aluminium, diasec, 120 x 90 cm 

Description of the theme of the work: Against the exclusion and marginalization of women; against the erasure of women from history, power, politics and culture. Another meaning: critique of contemporary narcissism in the age of digital culture; critique of the obsessional repetition of selfies, until headlessness.

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Jeanne d’Arc, still in flames

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Ulla Karttunen: Red Night (La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc) I & II, 2018, pigment on acrylic and aluminium, diasec 124 x 82,6 cm

The series Red Night (La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc) deals with the duality of visionary mystic’s passion. For a mystic her passion means a request for truth but also extreme suffering. One part of the strife is the conflict with community, or, exclusion. First death sentence, then birth of an adored saint, as was the case with Joan of Arc.

Red Night (La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc) III (2021), displayed at Urbanside Gallery, Zürich, untill 4 March 2022

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