17.10. – 22.11.2026

A warm welcome to the opening on Friday 16 October, 18.00–21.00.

*Joonas Pulkkinen: As I understand the title of the show, Final Girl, it’s somehow about surviving. Besides installations and video works, you always have photos of your everyday life and the family you have built. In that way there’s also this question of how to survive the trauma, continue with your life, and be a parent yourself.

Juliana Irene Smith: Exactly.

JP: Of course, having a family of your own doesn’t erase the fact that you were once a child. I think childhood memories are so strong and influential that they somehow always remain.

JIS: Yes, and they come from smells, different associations, or sounds. If I hear Paul Simon, it remains connected to my stepfather. Someone who has smoked a cigarette and put toothpaste on—the smell is just like, eh… Smells and sounds can trigger memories, both good and bad.
The images of the present are also because, when you are an artist making work, you’re doing your day-to-day life, but that’s not your whole life. How do you compartmentalize, or do you compartmentalize, what’s what?

*Excerpt from a text written by Joonas Pulkkinen @pepe_pulkkinen for the Final Girl exhibition.

The exhibition is supported by Eugène, Elisabeth och Birgit Nygréns Stiftelse, @amosandersonsfond & Taike