Atelier Insights #6: 7ODES

7ODES: My actual workspace is located in the industrial area of Roihupelto in Helsinki. It’s an individual studio in a building with restaurants, a car garage, and other artist studios. It’s nice because I have two good friends who also have their studios in the same building. The studio is tiny but good enough to create new works, shoot them against the walls, store some tools and older works, play guitar, and compose music.

7: Lately, I have been interested in light materials and techniques, works that are easy to store.
So, I have been working on drawings, field recordings, and music. I’m often working as an art handler in different museums, and I can say that witnessing such heavy logistics involved in showing visual arts has made me reconsider how I want to work technically as an artist. So, I chose to work in a more light, ecological, and cheap process. I’m interested in artists’ responsibility and ethical choices, and how it’s visible or relevant in their artworks. eraser.

7: Yes, phenomenologically, I can’t separate myself and my acts from my surroundings, so I’m always influenced by the size of my studio, its light, the sounds, weather, etc. Since 2018, I have also been working outside a lot. I have built two outdoor studios, one in Normandy, France, and one in Inari, Northern Finland. I’m working there sometimes. I also like to work while traveling; that’s why I’m now working mostly with video, sound recording, and music. Nowadays, I’m interested in a more improvised way of making art. To work when I really have something to say; otherwise, I think it’s also good to be quiet. Thus, I maybe find more vital and radical ways of creating.