Matilda Keränen

About the artwork

“it is an imaginary figure, which, just like the soul, the shadow, the mirror image, haunts the subject like his other, which makes it so that the subject is simultaneously itself and never resembles itself again, which haunts the subject like a subtle and always averted death.”

         – Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation

Violet is an oil triptych installed in the space. The figures in the painting create a mirror-like reflection, where they are close to each other, and yet out of reach. The work’s composition alludes to ancient mythologies, Sappho, metaphors, and iconographic imagery. At the same time, however, it creates a corporeal reality in the present. The work depicts sexuality and passion, but above all, love is at its core.