At Kiasma—Helsinki’s Museum of Contemporary Art—French artist Pauline Curnier Jardin has finally been afforded the space to construct the grotesque amusement park of her dreams. We enter on the periphery of the so-called Luna Park, a zone where the more marginalised figures of the entertainment industry are known to congregate. A khaki-coloured military tent occupies the room, with a bucket full of silver coins next to its small cut-out viewing window. Activated by the coin slot, the interior of the tent lights up dramatically, revealing a peepshow of sexual drawings lining its walls. These simple figurative illustrations were done by members of the Feel Good Cooperative—an artistic collective made up of artists, architects and a group of Colombian trans sex workers and their allies, co-initiated by Curnier Jardin during the Covid lockdowns—and depict their everyday work.
