Fake Empire and Palm Trees

From 6th of August ArtDepoo is hosting a show "Fake Empire and Palm Trees" by Finnish young artists Jonna Johansson and Juan Kasari.

Juan Kasari (1974) moves between different media, from mixed media paintings to sound works through photography and video, sometimes fusing them all in a complete installations that creates illusion of certain separate world. His style is quite hermetic and not often easily accessible. His installations feature characters from stories of the artists own invention with hints of existing real personalities. He mixed facts and fictives in a interesting ways. Juan Kasari finds also new ways to use modern cliches in his work. Usually there is a certain voyeuristic, humorous and political aspects in his works.
In Art Depoo he shows two new photo series.

Jonna Johansson (1975) deals with humanity at a large scale in her art work, and among this she searches global phenomenon in the level of individual. Johansson’s medium is mainly painting and installation.
“Sweet Paradise” – installation takes hold of the welfare society’s growing phenomenon, where global multinational corporate chains dominate street image and “sweet” life is pursued in many different levels without thinking its causes.
On the other hand the same structural changes are experienced among the people who live under the poverty line, where standard of living forces people to a certain consumption of food.