Frida Moukulainen is an artist who graduated from Kankaanpää Art School. She lives and works in Kankaanpää, Satakunta. Some of her new paintings are painted on aluminum plate and some consist of collage and drawings built on canvas and a plexiglass sheet screwed onto the canvas base, on which she paints with oil paint. One of the elements of her latest paintings could also be the reflections caused by plexiglass and the feel of the material, which makes the trees, roots and other plant parts appearing in the subjects look as if everything happened underwater, and the reflection of the viewer’s own image would be part of the strange aquarium-like works. Materials have always interested her and she considers the base material to be an essential part of her work, be it plexiglass or aluminium. Reflections, shine, haziness and water as an element mean to her an inner landscape, sensitivity and sensations beyond the concrete world. Sometimes giving rise to questions about which of all experiences is the most true.
Plant motifs, branches and trees are repeated in the works of the exhibition Reflections. Typically, these can be thought of as describing growth and the birth of something new. Moukulainen has been on a break from exhibitions and has been thinking about the meaning of her work and how necessary it is to work as a professional.
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