Time Is A Luxury We Don’t Have

**Time Is A Luxury** 2012 / Oil on wood / 200 x 160 cm Photo: Vilhelm Sjöström

**Sugar Rush** 2012 / Acrylic on wood / 160 x 200 cm Photo: Vilhelm Sjöström

**Power** 2012 / Oil on wood 207 x 159 x 9 cm Photo: Vilhem Sjöström

**Some men just want to watch the world burn** 2012 / Imitation stones, acrylic, mdf, silk / 100 x 120 cm Photo: Vilhelm Sjöström

Mari Keto & Jani Leinonen
Time Is A Luxury We Don’t Have
Zetterberg Gallery December 1 – 22, 2012
Opening Hours Wed-Fri 4-7pm, Sat-Sun 12-4pm

Overwhelming details, offensive décor, punchlines we do not want to acknowledge. The works of Mari Keto and Jani Leinonen put us all into cold sweat.
In Mari Keto’s works the conceptual underpinning and high degree of craftsmanship merge into an artwork. Keto explores the tensions and structures of our contemporary culture by portraying icons and symbols predominantly surrounding us. The fierce stare of a lost Joker Face arrests the attention with an unpleasant recognition of the decomposing moment.

Jani Leinonen attacks symbols and marketing strategies, turning them into objects of ridicule, clichéing our agreed marketing society and economical everyday. With these strikes Leinonen unfolds the chain reaction we all are voluntarily involved and plays up the iconographies of the global brand land.