6.5.-15.5.2021 Laura Pajunen: Sunnuntaineuroosi

Opening hours are

7.-15.5. at 13-19

The opening night 6.5 from 17 to 20

Any official event won’t take place on the opening night due to covid-19 situation. However, the doors are open for visitors. When visiting the gallery, we ask visitors to follow the latest

covid-19 instructions. Welcome!

“Sunday neurosis, that kind of depression which afflicts people who become

aware of the lack of content in their lives when the rush of the busy week is

over and the void within themselves becomes manifest.”

―Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning, 1946

Sunday Neurosis painting series depicts passive, seemingly serene people in a semi surreal atmosphere. The painting series draws inspiration from the artist's personal experience of the emptiness of mundane, everyday life, tolerating it, understanding it and overcoming it. However, the paintings also address values that are important for coping and making one’s life pleasant: rest and some alone time. The paintings are reconstructions of everyday moments, based on photographs.

Laura Pajunen (1992, Ylöjärvi) is Helsinki-based visual artist. She graduated from Aalto-university in 2019 and holds MA in art education. After graduation, Pajunen has focused on making art and mainly works with oil colours. She has sold artworks in private collections, attended several group exhibitions and held her first solo exhibitions in 2021. In art, Pajunen is interested in stagnant moments in everyday life, idleness, connection between humans and nature, human body and experimenting with colours.