Les Beaux Hommes De Pori – Petri Haavisto & Ville Kirjanen

Les Beaux Hommes de Pori is both a real and fictional luxury brand. Sculptors Petri Haavisto and Ville Kirjanen, graduates from Kankaanpää Art School, present an exhibition in which they transform their art into a luxury brand, drawing inspiration from both the perceived and actual exoticism of Pori. LBHDP aestheticizes and fetishizes everything in its environment, crafting a narrative that positions Pori as the new paradigm of haute couture, luxury fashion, and design. Haavisto and Kirjanen gaze upon the deserted sandy shores of Yyteri and market its sand as an exclusive luxury product—perhaps even as a low-calorie superfood.

A luxury boutique opening in the gallery’s lower floor showcases conceptual lifestyle products, including Pocket Forest boxes that offer a sense of natural and mental peace, as well as the mystical Power Stones of Kallo.

The upper-floor exhibition continues this journey by channeling local identity and mythology into a more fantastical, post-apocalyptic vision of design.

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