Karin Kytökangas

My work is a sincere wish to visualize the border between the inner fantastical mind and the literal visual world. There I find the visual enjoyment of colors, of how words quickly make meaning, and how a joke penetrates the logical thinking mind despite being just that: a logical thought loop. The ‘border’ also contains questions about what is actually valuable and I like to see my work as a long stretch between what is meaningful and complete nonsense; between psychedelic silliness and beautiful seriousness.
 

I am also a part of a group called the Association for the Palliative Turn which is a project initiated by the artist Olav Westphalen. The collective group takes up various aspects of medical palliative practice in order to incorporate it into artistic work, but also to question our understanding of death and dying – and to discuss what climate change and the decreasing life expectancy of our ecosystems have for the design of our future. The Palliative Turn consists of people from various fields such as artists, philosophers, scientists, a comedian, and palliative care experts. I see my participation as a continuation of what I already do, and my take on the subject is to mock companies’ belief of being immortal and to embrace the failure and the nonsensical.