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LEIKKIKENTTÄ - PLAYGROUND



2026
Video & Sound Installation
Riivaaja I & Riivaaja II, 1,35min & 1.57min on Loop
Auvo I & Auvo II, 1.26min & 0.35min on Loop
Leikkikenttä, 2.01min on Loop

DV - archival & recent
CRT Box Monitors
Wisa Spruce Ply & Steel Chain Swings
Pine Timber & Steel 2-Way Loudspeakers

Shown at CSM Graduate Show  17-21.06.2026, London UKLeikkikenttä – Playground, is a response to the political landscape in which structural sexual violence has become highlighted and the systems that have failed to hold structures and perpetrators accountable. It is an autobiographical work of the artist’s own past of sexual violence that they experienced from the ages of one to three while living abroad. Ainis confronts the fallacy of the ‘perfect victim’, as they were a ‘perfect victim’ within the white patriarchal standard, until they needed care and accountability, and couldn’t be used only for the fiction of justified violence of the ‘other’. The work explores the desire for escapism into nature, as they could escape the violence in the Finnish countryside. The work examines the dissociation of identity due to the violence done to one’s personhood.