Tarwuk, Anni Puolakka and Jaakko Pallasvuo at GMK

Artists: Tarwuk, Anni Puolakka and Jaakko Pallasvuo

Exhibition title: Ankle Biter

Venue: GMK, Zagreb, Croatia

Date: December 20, 2018 – January 19, 2019

Photography: Damir Žižić / all images copyright and courtesy of the artists and GMK, Zagreb

Nor can the darkness still the whispering in the trees.
not measurable,
but who already knows.
“shows paranoid symptoms”
plying the boats like lyres.
not hearing me at all
though they stood at the door
during a reading
Some vanished soon after.
Laws of nature
The trees are, the nights grow longer bit by bit,
Still, it is as sad as a child
Living concepts
Free when obey self
Discover self
just after i said
probably for her psychology class
“this is a paranoid poem – written when i was experimenting with paranoid states of
consciousness, but i’m not there anymore”
so slowly nobody notices.
Education of feelings
Cognitive unity
Feeling mysticism
or on the shore beside the boats
to whom one speaks soothingly, from whom one is keeping something,
Others stayed.
Best possible world
Into the high ancestral spaces
True individuality
Pain outweighs pleasure
This admits of endless interpretation.
like in Milwaukee
Some gave a sense of size,
& a young girl sat writing
This says nothing.
Rejection of supernatural influences
Purpose of life
Absolute spiritual being

Anni Puolakka (born in Oulu, Finland) is based in Helsinki and Rotterdam and makes performances, videos, installations, drawings and texts in which situation-specific or documentary materials are incorporated into fictional worlds. Puolakka’s works have recently been shown at Bunkier Sztuki (Krakow), BOZAR (Brussels), PLATO Ostrava, Kiasma Museum of Modern Art (Helsinki) and Performance Space (Sydney).

www.annipuolakka.com

Jaakko Pallasvuo (b. 1333) is an artist. Pallasvuo makes videos, texts, performances and installations that explore the anxieties of being alive now, and the prospect of living in some possible future. In recent years this work has been presented at The New York Film Festival, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Kunsthalle St. Gallen and Jupiter Woods, among other places.

www.jaakkopallasvuo.com

Tarwuk (Bruno Pogačnik Tremow and Ivana Vukšić) is an artist duo based between Zagreb and New York. Tarwuk collaborate with a diverse group of people, including their family members, to produce haunted installations, objects and films. Their recent exhibitions include ‘Ti živiš već hiljadu godina’ at team gallery, ‘Beside Myself’ at JTT, ‘Tužni Rudar’ at 15 Orient, ‘21070621-141332(2)’ at The Museum of Fine Arts in Osijek, Croatia and ‘Tout est pret. Au premier signal que vous nous enverrez de Tireste, tous se leveront en masse pour l’independance de la Hongrie. Xrzah’ at The Ethnographical Museum of Istria, Pazin.

www.tarwuk.com

Exhibition is supported by: Frame Contemporary Art Finland, FACE Croatia and Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia.

GMK gallery is supported by Zaklada Kultura Nova.

aakko Pallasvuo, Anni Puolakka, TARWUK, Ankle Biter, 2018, exhibition view, Galerija Miroslav Kraljevic, Zagreb

Jaakko Pallasvuo, Anni Puolakka, TARWUK, SacreMonger, 2018, plastic, fibreglass, fabric, resin clay, coyote hair, human hair, metal wire, latex, BQE relics

Jaakko Pallasvuo, Anni Puolakka, TARWUK, SacreMonger, 2018, plastic, fibreglass, fabric, resin clay, coyote hair, human hair, metal wire, latex, BQE relics, flash

TARWUK, Subtitles, 2018, fabric, drop ceiling, installation wiring

TARWUK, MRTISKLAAAH_ALAM_SFERA, 2018, oil on canvas, artist frame

Željka Lovrić, Koviljka Lovrić, Ančica Čelig, Skulpturice, 2018, clay resin, rock, seashell, ceramic

Jaakko Pallasvuo, Anni Puolakka, SACRE3, 2018, video, 37 min: exhibition view

Jaakko Pallasvuo, Anni Puolakka, SACRE3, 2018, video, 37 min

TARWUK, KLOSKLAS_ČOGER_3d, 2017, wood, wax, resin hair, coyote hair exhibition view

Jaakko Pallasvuo, Anni Puolakka, TARWUK, Ankle Biter, 2018, exhibition view, Galerija Miroslav Kraljevic, Zagreb

Anni Puolakka, 2018, pencil on paper

Jaakko Pallasvuo, Anni Puolakka, TARWUK, Ankle Biter, 2018, exhibition view, Galerija Miroslav Kraljevic, Zagreb, Anni Puolakka, TARWUK, Ankle Biter, 2018, exhibition view, Galerija Miroslav Kraljevic, Zagreb

Jaakko Pallasvuo, Anni Puolakka, TARWUK, Steiner’s Baby, 2018, plastic, fibreglass, fabric, resin clay, coyote hair, human hair, metal wire, latex, tyvek

Jaakko Pallasvuo, Anni Puolakka, TARWUK, Ankle Biter, 2018, exhibition view, Galerija Miroslav Kraljevic, Zagreb

Anni Puolakka, 2018, pencil on paper

Jaakko Pallasvuo, Anni Puolakka, TARWUK, Ankle Biter, 2018, exhibition view, Galerija Miroslav Kraljevic, Zagreb

Jaakko Pallasvuo, Control Visit for Problematic Behaviour, 2018, ink on paper

Jaakko Pallasvuo, Anni Puolakka, TARWUK, Ankle Biter, 2018, exhibition view, Galerija Miroslav Kraljevic, Zagreb

Jaakko Pallasvuo, Anni Puolakka, TARWUK, Ankle Biter, 2018, found porcelain hand, orange peel

TARWUK, “Tout est pret. Au premier signal que vous nous enverrez de Trieste, tous se leveront en masse pour l’independence de la Hongrie. Xrzah.” , 2017, video, duration 03:20 min