The exhibition Dalmatian consists of twelve self-portraits by Iiu Susiraja. She is covered in bruises in these photographs, taken in her home in Turku, Finland. Each picture features Iiu positioned on her bed, with props, in a series of pin-up style poses. Susiraja holds food. She wears cleaning products. She plays with toys. She reclines, a pale painkiller Venus, recovering. She stares at the camera’s lens, searching the viewer with eyes wide. Her bruises imply violence. She folds her pain in… more