Riikka Aihinen: Concealed

“I have tried to avoid excessive interpretation and reasoning to find a hiding place where the unconscious lurks. Creating the paintings for this exhibition has been a slow and drawn-out process – and rightly so. The subject matter holds something from the past, something from the present and something from the future. It's a matter of surrendering, of giving up but also receiving. In their freshness, the works are still partly a mystery to me. Intuition guides my work more and more, especially in the early stages. In the art creation process, I primarily focus on presence, honesty and courage.”

Riikka Aihinen (b. 1976) is a painter from Turku. In her art, Aihinen examines her inner world of experience and thus structures her existence. She strives to identify emotions in the mind and body and their origins, and then convey them through her paintings. The works of recent years have dealt with duality in different ways. This can be seen in the distribution of the image surface and image pairs. Ideas arise from the interest in the relationship between mind and body, as well as the conflicts within the mind.

Forum Box

2.-25.2.2024 
Tue-Sun 12.00–17.00

Free entry