Diary Life | Päiväkirjaelämää | Dagbokslivet
(2019)
Group show with Eugene Sundelius von Rosen, Babi Badalov, Jaakko Pallasvuo
Kohta, Helsinki
curated by Anders Kreuger
The diary used to be our most private and secret thing – until it wasn’t.
Think of all the diaries (sometimes with a little lock on them) pried open and read by those described in less than flattering terms on their pages. That scene is a common trope in literature, theatre and cinema, just like the diary entry as a narrative form.
Many diarists have dreamt – privately, secretly – about posthumously sharing their life with the interested public. Publishing diaries (and writers’ letters, and artists’ notebooks) has become a whole industry driven by our lust for illicit insight, and ultimately our hope that process will reveal itself as superior to product.
(text by Anders Kreuger)
selected comics and live-feed of instagram account
left: work byJaakko Pallasvuo)
below: publication
Photo: Jussi Tiainen