MINNA MAIJA LAPPALAINEN: PAINTINGS

Minna Maija Lappalainen is fascinated by everything fragile and brittle, barely intact: withered flowers, structures on the verge of collapse and especially vulnerable people. The same fragility lingering in the middle ground of existence and disappearance is also found in her work.

Over the years, Lappalainen’s models have been Japanese buto dancers, as well as pictures found online of swamp bodies that died thousands of years ago. The Makers’ Gallery works have been inspired by elderly women – today’s grandmothers who boldly showcase their sexuality online and the tight-lipped ladies in their dresses buttoned-up to the chin who lived a century ago.