Finnish multi-disciplinary artist Jaakko Pallasvuo's Retreat brings a postmodern knowingness to his take on the dystopian genre as he explores the clashing ideologies and emotions of a love triangle set at the twilight of the human race. An expressive, sardonic rendering of love, fear, and ennui in the face of oblivion, Retreat takes well-worn narrative tropes in refreshing new directions.
Jaakko Pallsvuo is an artist both inspired by and heavily engaged in Internet culture as a source of material, a subject unto itself, and a space to realize his work, exploring the relationships between identity and virtual representation.
Retreat
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Jaakko Pallsvuo is a multi-disciplinary artist who is both inspired by and heavily engaged in Internet culture as a source of material, a subject unto itself, and a space to realize his work. Along these lines, his work explores the relationships between identity and virtual self-representation while drawing from ethnographic & anthropological cinema, 80's & 90's culture, and what he's described as "generational experiences." His work has been shown in galleries across North America (New York, Detroit, Chicago, Toronto), South America (Sao Paulo), Europe (Berlin, Paris, London, Milan, Stockholm, Amsterdam, Helsinki, Madrid, Prague, Vienna) and Asia (Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai)