After focusing in the 1970s on subject matter relating to the climate of political activism at the time, and processing mass media popular culture through mythological motifs in the 1980s, Jarmo Mäkilä’s orientation since the recent turn of the century has been autobiographical themes with psychoanalytical aspects concerning childhood and adulthood. This exhibition presents four large paintings of a group of boys, introspective and deeply preoccupied with strange situations and settings. Some appear to be involved in ritualistic séances in nature, suggesting the cruel games in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies. Others are shown in curious interiors, carrying drums like the one owned by little Oskar in Günther Grass’ The Tin Drum, who decides on his third birthday to stop growing. With his enigmatic scenes, Mäkilä conveys dreamlike reminiscences of the good and the bad in childhood.