Moi. I’m a Finnish multidisciplinary artist based in Turku, Finland. I work with installation, animation, textile and sculpture, drawing and text. I see these techniques as different Ianguages I can use to tell stories, and with them I create pieces that invite the audience to pause for a moment, to really look what is in front of them.

I’m especially interested in experiences that happen at the intersection of shared and personal. My work is often based on the feelings and affects that spring from the culture and society around us, and my aim is to highlight the structural cause behind them. Shared environments come with common values and expectations, and quite often they stir up emotions many of us can recognize. Those are the ones I am drawing and sewing to my pieces.

My practice is characterized by continuity, repetition and serialization, and over the years I have worked on themes such as competition, failure, identity, and Anthropocene.

A couple years ago I started to circle around absence. I was drawn to it because of its ambivalence, and it still keeps me interested with its elusive nature. Absence is certainly not nothing. It is so closely tied to presence it would not exist without it, and it reveals itself through traces and clues which require interpretation. This materiality of absence has been central to my work as I have attempted to depict something that isn’t using something that is. The theme has also led me to my working class background, as the working class is often defined as lacking. Slowly the focus of my work has started to shift, and lately I have been asking what being working class feels like?