Mari Ljokkoi
Unwanted Situations
7.1.2017.-22.1.2017
Galleria Huuto Jätkäsaari – Pikkujätkä
The exhibition Unwanted situations features three artworks that deal with the same topic: unwanted pregnancy and its consequences.
Each in Turn is a short video documentary where a young woman walks in the cemetery and invites three women, already dead, to have pizza with her. Together they talk about unwanted pregnancies, their consequences and possibilities to choose. Women’s rights over their own body and life have been limited and even today when abortion is legally available in Finland and around ten thousand abortions are done per year, the experiences are rarely discussed in public.
Non-father is a video work where the main character, a young man, is facing the biggest decision of his life, only that he is not allowed to decide. Man’s role as a father and fatherhood have become more significant in western culture but when it comes to unwanted pregnancies, the woman is the one to choose.
47 000 is a drawing installation showing the worldwide situation. World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that each year 47 000 women die after unsafe abortions, mostly in places where abortion is illegal.
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