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Laura
Ukkonen
Finland, 1977
Safe life
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Aalto School of Art, Design and Architecture
Department of Art
Fine Arts
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30th Birthday (Image credits: Laura Ukkonen)
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(Image credits: Laura Ukkonen)
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In my Grandmother's Room (Image credits: Laura Ukkonen)
In my drawings, I observe the home as an attempt to reach a life that you are expected to live, and women living inside these walls.
A home can be a shelter as well as a place of isolation. It has traditionally been a space of feminine power that women have built up in order to tell their community about a life well spent. As a paradox, the feeling of being safe can also produce a state of silence, a room you can't get out of.
The relation between women and their possibilities to work their way out in the society has changed, but I am still interested in the relation between gender and the emotions related to home. Do we still hope that home is the place that convinces us that we are safe?
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