Emma Sarpaniemi's solo show Snake Lifter in Zagreb
11.12.2025
Emma Sarpaniemi's solo show Snake Lifter is presented this December in Zagreb, Croatia, as part of Organ Vida International Photography Festival.
Emma Sarpaniemi’s solo exhibition examines identity and gender roles through performative self-portraits. The artist performs various models of femininity based on symbols of innocence and absurdity, testing the limits of self-representation. The photographs are created through bodily performances, reactions to phallocentric objects such as a baguette, a pencil or a rolling pin. The artist translates the act of taking control of one’s own image into a playful and humorous self-reflection.
In the title Snake Lifter, she alludes to the experience of donning a snake skin, which she interprets as a transformative artistic process. Each newly created photograph becomes a kind of second skin and an unstable surface to play with. The elusive protagonists are embodied as unfinished images of femininity.
The exhibition is on view at KO:KE Space (Prilaz Gjure Deželića 27, Zagreb) from December 12 until December 23rd (space open on weekdays between 17-20 and on Saturdays between 10-13)
Read more about the exhbition and the festival here
Emma Sarpaniemi: Karhupumppu (2025)
Emma Sarpaniemi’s solo exhibition examines identity and gender roles through performative self-portraits. The artist performs various models of femininity based on symbols of innocence and absurdity, testing the limits of self-representation. The photographs are created through bodily performances, reactions to phallocentric objects such as a baguette, a pencil or a rolling pin. The artist translates the act of taking control of one’s own image into a playful and humorous self-reflection.
In the title Snake Lifter, she alludes to the experience of donning a snake skin, which she interprets as a transformative artistic process. Each newly created photograph becomes a kind of second skin and an unstable surface to play with. The elusive protagonists are embodied as unfinished images of femininity.
The exhibition is on view at KO:KE Space (Prilaz Gjure Deželića 27, Zagreb) from December 12 until December 23rd (space open on weekdays between 17-20 and on Saturdays between 10-13)
Read more about the exhbition and the festival here
Emma Sarpaniemi: Karhupumppu (2025)
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