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Kalle Ahonen, Krista Blomqvist, Anne Kaski-Kløve, Laura Kopio, Johannes Länsiö, Anu Miettinen, Tanja Nyo, Henriikka Pöllänen, Seppo Renvall

Soft Nightmare is a conversation between contrasts, where one shouts and the other whispers. It is the meeting of shadow and light, a journey into the terrain between nightmares and something better. The theme collides seemingly incompatible objects, transforming assumed contradictions into possible harmony.

A group show, featuring members of the 2024 board of the Artists’ Association Yö, brings together works from nine artists at Yö Galleria. The expression ranges from video, photography, painting, and glass art. The exhibition’s theme, Soft Nightmare, can also be seen as a controversial metaphor for Yö’s diverse artistic community—a collective that is interdisciplinary, heterogeneous, ever-changing, eclectic, incomparable, unconventional, vibrant, multifaceted, and non-homogeneous. Yet, precisely because of this, it is radiant—like a dump in an oasis, and an oasis in a dump.

Image: Seppo Renvall