Pilvi Takala: Sweat Equity

KRIEG? university gallery, PXL-MAD School of Arts (Hasselt, BE), 18 February — 18 March, 2021

Due to COVID-19-related circumstances, this exhibition was reconceived as an online viewing room.

'Sweat Equity' is a term taken from startup culture that refers to the practice of giving shares to employees or contractors in exchange for labour. The show consists of two video pieces by Pilvi Takala. The Stroker (2018) has become eerily relevant in the face of a global pandemic, challenging our perception of boundaries and private/public space. If your heart wants it (remix) (2020) is a new video work that was made during Takala's residence at Aalto Business School and is co-produced by KRIEG? 

Sweat Equity also includes a commissioned text by curator and writer Victoria Ivanova.

Read the interview with Pilvi Takala by Tamara Beheydt for GLEAN magazine #211 (March 2021).