Part of the multidisciplinary work for the Pavilion of Finland at the 60th Venice Biennale.
Comissioned by Frame Contemporary Art Finland.

The work talks about hate speech against people with disabilities in social and healthcare. The article about the piece, written together with poet Sanni Purhonen, is open access in the exhibition publication The Pleasures We Choose, pages 110–137. Edited by the curators Yvonne Billimore and Jussi Koitela. Publisher K. Verlag.

The installation is inspired by the violent and neglecting experiences of people with disabilities in social and healthcare services. Their stories are sewn as small textile sculptures hanging from the ceiling, with the authority figure flying at the center — faceless.

A Polaroid camera recalls a time when patients’ deformities were photographed during appointments. A stethoscope is attached to a rabbit, causing it to make erratic, frantic leaps. A coat of arms bears the image of a lobotomy. A baby representing human diversity has a mushroom for a head. The violin of the authority character could play the symphony of the social model of disability, but instead it spins an old cassette tape of the medical model. A rope bridge with gaps leads from one doctor to the next. Beneath the white coat, a lung-shaped family tree remains empty — symbolizing the fear of reproducing babies with piquant characteristics. A Lucia crown with eggs recalls that it´s a legend of a blind woman — yet today the key role is reserved for the young and beautiful. The sails of a votive ship make it drift backward.