Ville Laurinkoski (b. 1996 Finland) is a visual artist based in Copenhagen. Alongsidestudying at Ed Atkins’ class at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of VisualArts (BFA, MFA), Laurinkoski has attended classes at The University of the Arts Helsinki,Academy of Fine Arts (MFA), and completed Maumaus Independent Study Programme in2021. Working with both literature and voice, objects and space, with and throughexaggerated speech, screaming and singing, Laurinkoski denounces the given order andenchants the negative and oblique. Laurinkoski’s artistic practice is a form of critique thatproduces an aesthetics that exposes and subverts social and economic systems,revealing the broken and unwanted side of the contemporary. These unconsumableobjects and spaces carry a trace of the divisions that constituted them (such as labour,sexuality, and class), while simultaneously being reminiscent of consolation and bliss.

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