For some years now, the Finnish artist Sampsa Indrén has been drawing and painting dead animals that he finds on the summer house island or at the roadside. Sometimes he arranges several of the found birds into a composition in his very detailed drawings, sometimes the animals are skeletonized or you can see tyre tracks on the paper, which places the pictures in our times. What is special is that Sampsa Indrén’s animals never lose their dignity. This makes them strangely alive and beautiful despite the sad subject matter.

Artwirk: Birds, 2015,linocut and ink on paper, 37 x 26 cm