Jussi Pyky: Itsensä kesyttämä

Animals move silently in the shelter of dusk in the forest. They keep a safe distance from me. I know they are around me, though I do not perceive them. I am calm, though alert. It is still and quiet. It feels as if I am safe. In solitude, in darkness, in silence – something digs its way out in me. It feels foreign and ancient – that which we would like to hide, forget or tame. Light reveals everything and makes one vulnerable. It is the lack of darkness. That is perhaps why we want to illuminate everything. Darkness is shelter. Perhaps I am here, sheltered, from another self, from my daytime self. From the person of culture, civilisation, reason and light. From the one who walks in the light. The self tamed by itself. Jussi Pyky Jussi Pyky (b. 1985 in Tyrnävä) lives and works in Helsinki. He works with drawing and painting. Pyky graduated from the Lahti Institute of Fine Arts (2009) and received a Master of Arts in Fine Arts from the University of the Arts Helsinki, Academy of Fine Arts (2016). He has participated in numerous group exhibitions and held many solo exhibitions in Finland and abroad. Pyky is a member of the artists' cooperative Toolbox. He was awarded the William Thuring named award in 2025. His works are included, among others, in the Seppo Fränti Collection at Kiasma as well as in several private collections in Finland and Germany.