Nobody in the art school told me to write a an artist's statement but it was clear after graduating that it was needed for applying funding, grants and projects. I've used the following statement since 2006 when I launched my website. Now it feels expired and I don't agree with it's ambiguity. It says that my art is about the real world but without any commitment and responsibility. In the past few years, my attitude has changed radically but, curiously, I still could sign the works of that time though now I believe in Mayakovsky's words: Art is not a mirror to reflect the world, but a hammer with which to shape it.

REFRESHING MOLOTOV COCKTAILS
Artist's Statement, 2006

I make art out of everyday life, including special offers and car bombs, exotic cocktails and Molotov cocktails, cleaning the house and ethnic cleansing, fast food and Blitzkrieg.

I find my materials in the TV news (demonstration banners demanding more freedom), flyers put under windscreen wipers (earn money without a job), advertisements in newspapers (blow job without a condom), and breakfast cereal boxes (chocolate super hero eats his children).

I do drawings, but cannot draw. I do paintings, but cannot paint. I do other things, too, but cannot do that either. It is a tragedy, but tragedies are appreciated in Arts.

I always disagree. I am always wrong.

Some people are complaining that R&B diva Beyoncé lip-synched The Star-Spangled Banner at U.S. President Barack Obama's public inauguration ceremony.

The singer was accompanied by the Marine Corps band, whose spokesperson said that each piece of music scheduled for performance in the Inauguration is pre-recorded for use in case of freezing temperatures, equipment failure or extenuating circumstances. Obama, the commander-in-chief of the U.S. Armed Forces, plays it safe in all the operations. The combat drones killing civilians are the lip-sync of war.

Playback is the essence of the American government. The name or  the color (both the skin and the political party) of the leader don't make any difference - the aggressive and arrogant imperialism continues.

Totalitarianism is traditionally described as a political system where the state holds total authority over the society and seeks to control all aspects of the public life, including the economy, the education, the arts, the science, and the private life of the citizens.

Now, replace the words “state” and “regime” with “corporations” and “market” and you picture the status quo. The capitalist totalitarianism seeks to mobilize the entire population of the world in the support of the official consumerism (replacing ideologyies), and it is intolerant of activities which are not directed towards the goals of the market. The consumption and its propaganda (they call it advertising) penetrate into the deepest reaches of the societal structure and the corporations aims to control the thoughts and the actions of the consumers (called citizens in the Oldspeak).

Abkhaz (and earlier Soviet) author Fazil Iskander has written that “under the totalitarian regime, it was as if you were forced to live in the same room with an insanely violent man”. This quote describes perfectly how I feel about living my daily life in the capitalist totalitarianism – the aggressive corporations live in my refrigerator and in my underwear. Even the barrier device I wear in the most intimate moments of my life under the sheets is branded and claims to help me to get a firmer erection and increase my penis size. What else could we ask for?

McDonald's has launched a campaign which gives to its customers an opportunity to design on-line their favorite burgers. The most popular ones will be served in their fast-food restaurants. I created a sandwich which I named Spicy Hot Capitalism. Now I received the following message from McDonald's:

Greetings! Your suggestion for the world's best burger has been rejected due to the improper name containing dirty language.

Essentially, to me "capitalism" is a very dirty word but it's surprising that McDonald's Corporations considers it profane too.

When I'm not drawing, I'm working on the big curatorial project that takes place next summer at Hyvinkää Art Museum in Finland.

An art event in Hyvinkää focusing on homelessness
HOMELESSNESS FAIR - Taju 2013
June 14 - September 1
Organised by Hyvinkää Artists' Society and Hyvinkää Art Museum

Since 1998, the Hyvinkää Artists' Society has organised a contemporary art event Taju in Hyvinkää. The Homelessness Fair is the 13th Taju, and it introduces a whole new exhibition concept to the Finnish art scene.

The curators of Homelessness Fair are artists Jani Leinonen and Riiko Sakkinen. They have invited to Hyvinkää different institutions and NGOs organisations involved with homelessness The context is art, which at its best is a meeting place of different approaches and viewpoints.

The Homelessness Fair is an antithesis to the Housing Fair that is held in Hyvinkää also next summer . The Housing Fair focuses on housing technology and the stylishness of interior decoration without problematising the political and social dimensions of homelessness. In other words, The Homelessness Fair is a forum which creates discussion about what homelessness is and how it is defined.