Nina Lassila

In Piiskaa! / Beat it!, we see a woman cleaning a carpet. In her recent work Lassila has been working with questions of identity, specifically identity affected by social barriers and conventions based on gender and upbringing. “
“There is something provocative about a physical woman; even a loud laughter can provoke some people. There is a prevailing notion that a loud physical woman is somehow deranged and out of control”. Lassila
“ Gender is a lived ideology ‐ a system of ideas about men and women with which we live our lives. As lived ideology those ideas get transformed into specific bodily practices. Socially produced sex differences are embodied and lived out as real. They are materialized as habit and taken for granted as second nature.” (Bordieu)