GAG / duo show with Shia Conlon for Pori Art Museum / 2025-2026

GAG evokes the atmosphere of being a depressed teenager in early 2000s small-town England and Ireland. The exhibition is enclosed in dark purple, creating an intimate, bedroom-like space in which teen mythology takes centre stage. Rather than addressing gender directly, GAG approaches it obliquely. The artists seek to shift focus away from the body, instead exploring the feelings that surround it: dissociation, boredom, apathy, jealousy and sometimes hope. In revisiting these attempts at documenting their lives through art, the artists acknowledge this era as fundamental to their abilities to imagine a self.

A handmade xeroxed zine accompanies the exhibition, containing fragments of text, images and materials taken from the artists’ private chat, a space where the world of the show was formed over several years. At its centre is a commissioned text by Mia Wennerstrand, expanding on the exhibition’s themes and her personal connection to the Satakunta region.

Exhibited at duo show GAG at Pori Art Museum, Finland