Backflash, 2024
134 x 90 cm
Oil on canvas
The painting combines realism and cartoonish. It seeks a melting point of styles and moods. It contemplates how we see and misunderstand other people and how each individual is constructed of many layers of characters. It is painted with self-made oil colors. This painting participated in Kuvat Kevät 2024 (MFA Degree Show of the Academy of Fine Arts) in Helsinki. It is owned by the Päivi and Paavo Lipponen Foundation, whose collection is part of the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma and the Finnish National Gallery.