Category: 4D

Self-making Human

2023 Installation of sculptures (wood, fabric, wadding, plaster, silicone) and ready-made objects (furniture). Installation size 230 x 300 x 220 cm. Figure is human sized. Art association ITU’s 2022 summer exhibition had ARCHEOLOGICAL THINKING as its theme. I created a room installation depicting a scene of a humanoid figure in a kind of self-study lab/room, …

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Unnamed (Amniotic Fluid)

Green fabric sculpture sitting on a chair, wearing white and black veils.

2021 Donated and upcycled materials (wood, fabric, string, gauze, wadding), video and sound.Installation size 230 x 300 x 220 cm. Figure is human sized. Art association ITU’s 2021 summer exhibition had WATER as its theme. For my entry, I created a room installation with a double veiled green figure sitting on a high chair, seemingly …

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(That) Total Age

Image of ceramic face reliefs.

2020 Installation (wood, used tarp, recycled fabric, slip casting, looping video (05:11), looping soundscape (07:14).207 x 200 x 300 cm. Totalitarianism hasn’t disappeared from the face of the Earth. I wasn’t left behind when humanity moved on to this new millennia. It doesn’t make its appearances only on far-away, strange lands. In a totalitarian system …

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Like an Animal

Urban Animal in boxers sitting in Elina Lahdenperä's Living Room.

2020 Recycled fabrics, wadding and clothing.Life-sized, with four set of clothing changed during the exhibition. Part of “Olohuone / Living Room” installation in collaboration with Elina Lahdenperä. Exhibited at:HIOSTAMO 1, Köysiratagalleria, Turku “As an Animal” depicts a fabric sculpture of an unspecified urban animal (partly dog, partly hare, partly something else) who has entered a …

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Himmeli

2019 Recycled water pipes, string.100 x 100 cm, 130 x 130 cm “Himmeli” is a traditional Finnish mobile decoration made from straws. It can be simple or rather complex, but usually utilizes basic diamond shapes. Himmelis are often associated with Christmas decocations. In my 2019 work Himmeli I played with size and made simple himmelis …

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Himmel

Gold, smaller structure in Himmel being set up.

2019 Recycled water pipes, string, lights, motion sensor.Installation size 230 x 300 x 220 cm. Himmel is German for Heaven, also a word play with the Finnish term “himmeli” translating into a hanging straw ornament. For art association ITU’s 2019 summer exhibition called “Lovers of * the Milky Way” I made two large-scale versions of …

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Raja^2

Border line. Warning! Danger of value contamination!

2019 By Art collective VIRASTO fence gauze, fence posts, plywood 200 x 500 cm Exhibited at Kotka ART, Kotka

Dirt Boi

Dirt Boi

2019 Burlap, dirt, ryegrass, vat.Life-sized (toddler). Originally a course project to study sculptures in four dimension – space and time – Dirt Boi turned into a kind of pet while sitting on a busy hallway. Later on, Dirt Boi moved to the countryside to live with us and lived through the summer. Being made from …

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The Cocoon

Image of a crocheted artwork

2019 Finger crocheted woof. Variable size, min 200 x 300 cm

Stop the World I Want to Get Out

Plastic woman emerging from old computer screen.

2018 Plastic, tape, monitor, video.60 x 60 x 130 cm, 4 min looping video. The sculptural installation features a transparent female figure apparently trying to escape from an out-dated computer monitor. There’s a looping video playing, titled TV-Dinner, with static and short clips of a classic horror movie. Exhibited at ILMIÖ festival, Turku, 2018 and at …

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Meditation: Eternity

Look inside the box & video in Meditation: Eternity.

2018 Video installation “Meditation: Eternity”.Box 20 x 20 cm, 4 min looping video. Infinity and eternity are truly things to meditate upon. Exhibited in 2018 at DIMENSIO, Köysiratagalleria, Turku andin 2025 at GUARDIANS OF THE SECRET, Voipaala, Valkeakoski. 

Write-Up

Word art

Write-up drew inspiration from William S. Burroughs’s and Brion Gysin’s artistic technique, cut-up.