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Jenni Hiltunen: Tears are My Butterflies
Galerie Forsblom August 23–September 22, 2024

Gender stands front and center in the oeuvre of Jenni Hiltunen. She portrays female figures that mirror her personal experiences and her existence in the body of a girl and woman. Over the years, her personal life has crept into her art to a growing degree, not directly as autobiography or self-portraiture, but through the depiction of her inner reality. Some of the characters in her paintings represent the artist and her friends and loved ones, while others are imaginary or fictive characters, like …