I was chosen to be one of the (two) artists of the year by Artists O. We are going to have an exhibition at Lokal in August. Warmly welcome to the opening on Tue August 5th 2025 at 18-20!
How did you get interested in the material you use?
"I was introduced to ceramics when I was little, but I applied to study at Aalto and got in. I am an obsessive advocate of my material and I am interested in everything related to ceramics (history of porcelain, ceramic tableware, contemporary ceramic art, material research, teaching and theory of ceramic art), I am a ceramics nerd. Porcelain became my own material during my exchange year in Ohio and it still fascinates me, although I call it a difficult lover. As a counterbalance to porcelain, black clay recently became part of the material selection - I also like it. Black clay reminds me of Wedgwood's black basalt."
"The starting point of my own art is material, but also the basic purpose of contemporary art to represent something: a thought, an idea, a feeling or some kind of perception of the world. I make very representational art, rarely abstract, in the sense that it not wouldn’t represent anything. There is always some underlying idea, statement or story. I make contemporary art based on material, the ancestor of my work is decorative art."
What have you been up to lately?
"I was part of the group exhibitions of Artists O and Fiber Art Sweden, the last of which was held in Stockholm. For the exhibition I made performative, photographically documented and also can be said that these were site-specific ceramic works at the Cité residency in Paris. My favourite piece in the series was Blue Fruit Exotique, which I had made with blue porcelain fruits and photographed at a fruit stand in the Marais in Paris. I also liked the spiral seashell I photographed in the park of Sceaux Castle: I sat on the edge of a fountain and poured water from the seashell."
"Lately I've been inspired by the plant world. My old works continue to inspire me, like IMPRINT/l'Herbier (2017-2021), which is about herbariums and pressed plants. On the other hand, I want to make autobiographical works, featuring my two cats, American George, and noteworthy coincidences from the last ten years. I've peeled the onion of my making and come to an agreement with myself about what's worth doing. (I try to avoid unnecessary work and hope that making would be somewhat effortless.) I also constantly developing on a material level and have done a lot of background work with the material in the studio, as I find self made glazes to be the most enjoyable for me to work with. However, I don't make the clay myself, I rely on the best clays on the market - that's especially important when it comes to porcelain. I want to hold my fifth solo exhibition at some point, but I haven't found a suitable space for it yet, and write a book on contemporary craft theory in ceramic art."
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