Pilvi Takala and the Art of Awkwardness | The New Yorker

Pilvi Takala and the Art of Awkwardness

The Finnish artist is quietly taking notes as the people around her lose their shit.

via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/06/19/pilvi-takala-profile

Last year, Takala, who lives in Helsinki and Berlin, represented her home country at the Venice Biennale, where a curatorial statement noted that her work explores “how the neoliberal conflation of civic spaces and commerce has created a nebulous boundary that privileges consumer over citizen.”