For his first solo exhibition in the United Kingdom, Erkka Nissinen presents nine new ink drawings, in which he trains his characteristically absurdist humour on the subject of surveillance and shame. The setting for these works is a series of bare, windowless rooms, all of which seem to belong to the same sprawling, Kafka-esque facility.
Here, men indulge in various kinks (urophagia, autofellatio, disappearing up to
their necks in the rectum of a pig), observed either by anonymous, silhouetted
onlookers, or their own horrified wives and kids. In other images, these men
become subject to seemingly arbitrary arrest, interrogation, and cartoonish
punishments.