Huolenpito I / Care I. Akryyli mdf-levylle, 100cm x 140cm, 2010. 
Uudet Ystävät / Recent Acquaintances. Akryyli mdf-levylle, 140cm x 200cm, 2010. 
Huolenpito II / Care II. Akryyli mdf-levylle, 130cm x 110cm, 2011. 
Kohtaaminen / Encounter. Akryyli mdf-levylle, diptyykki, osat 120cm x 170cm, 2011. 
Kohtaaminen, osa 1 / Encounter, part 1. Akryyli mdf-levylle, 120cm x 170cm, 2011. 
Nuotio / Making Fire. Akryyli mdf-levylle, 140cm x 200cm, 2011. 
Oma syli / My Own Lap. Akryyli mdf-levylle, 100cm x 70cm, 2010. 
Sylissä II / In Your Arms II. Akryyli mdf-levylle, 80cm x 60cm, 2011. 
Sylissä I / In Your Arms I. Akryyli mdf-levylle, triptyykki, osat 60cm x 45cm, 2010. 
Toisen syli / Other's Lap. Akryyli mdf-levylle, 100cm x 70cm, 2010. 
Turvassa / Safe. Akryyli mdf-levylle, 100cm x 90cm, 2011. 
Valkoinen pusero / White Shirt. Akryyli mdf-levylle, 90cm x 60cm, 2011. 
CABLE FACTORY GALLERY, HELSINKI
25.8.-11.9.2011
TO THE PRESS
Emotions and physicality are present in the paintings where a person touches his fellow human being.
In her previous paintings, Tuula Anttonen (b. 1970) focused on the individual and his body awareness. In the exhibition Human Contacts in the Gallery of Kaapeli, Anttonen paints group scenes where individuals act together.
"Sociality and connection to others is a complicated thing," the artist reflects. "For example, touch can either be the fulfillment of one's deepest wishes or a violation of boundaries; violence. Belonging to a community means safety - on the other hand, it can mean the end of an individual's rights."
In her latest paintings, Anttonen deals with questions about individual autonomy, the limits of care, dependence and the power struggle in the community. Anttonen's way of building people constructively and avoiding the representation of faces makes the characters slightly mechanical, some kind of human prototypes. As a result, a sufficient distance - detachment - is created to state hypotheses about one's own species.