Siiri Pohjolainen
Siiri Pohjolainen´s sculptural, site-specific paintings live their own surface and exceed the limits of their frames. She makes large-scale canvases and discovers new forms in them. In her paintings and installations made with acrylic paint, their surface is configured in two ways: both as images of tangible surfaces and conceptual presentations. There, the canvas wrinkles, creases, becomes smooth and settles again. Pohjolainen handles the ground of paintings as if they were textile works by sewing the canvas with a machine. For her it is a tool for making collages.
Siiri Pohjolainen was born in 1979 in Lahti, Finland. She lives and works now in Helsinki. Pohjolainen graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts of Helsinki in 2017 with a Master of Fine Arts and from Free Art School as a painter in 2004.
Pohjolainen feels that she has always been an artist. As a child, she understood the other reality that art could offer to her. Symbolism and metaphors have always been in her interest. She started to paint with oil colours when she was four years old.
Her works can be found in many public and private collections, including the State of Finland, Kone Foundation and the City of Tampere. She has taken part in several group and solo exhibitions in Finland and abroad.
“To talk about the sleep of the material is a wonderful image… you have to wake it, to wake the material up.” Meyer-Thoss 1992, p.122
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From the Sun ExhibitionSiiri Pohjolainen, From the Sun Exhibition, acrylic on canvas (filling recycled textile), 2022. Photo: .
Ground, detailSiiri Pohjolainen, Ground, detail, acrylic and string on canvas, 260 cm x 500 cm x 2 cm ,2022. Photo: .
NightSiiri Pohjolainen, Night, acrylic on canvas (filling recycled textile), 130 cm x 130 cm x 50 cm ,2022. Photo: .
Night, detailSiiri Pohjolainen, Night, detail, acrylic on canvas (filling recycled textile), 130 cm x 130 cm x 50 cm ,2022. Photo: .
MudSiiri Pohjolainen, Mud, acrylic on canvas, 140 cm x 130 cm x 2 cm ,2022. Photo: .
MidnightSiiri Pohjolainen, Midnight, acrylic on canvas (filling recycled textile), 146 cm x 132 cm x 70 cm ,2022. Photo: .
From the Sun ExhibitionSiiri Pohjolainen, From the Sun Exhibition, acrylic on canvas (filling recycled textile), 2022. Photo: .
MomentSiiri Pohjolainen, Moment, acrylic on canvas (filling recycled textile), 200 cm x 200 cm x 10 cm ,2022. Photo: .
From the Sun ExhibitionSiiri Pohjolainen, From the Sun Exhibition, acrylic on canvas (filling recycled textile), 2022. Photo: .
From the Sun ExhibitionSiiri Pohjolainen, From the Sun Exhibition, acrylic on canvas (filling recycled textile), 40 cm x 40 cm x 20 cm ,2022. Photo: .
From the Sun ExhibitionSiiri Pohjolainen, From the Sun Exhibition, acrylic on canvas (filling recycled textile), 2022. Photo: .
Moment 2Siiri Pohjolainen, Moment 2, acrylic and canvas on board, 230 cm x 140 cm x 2 cm ,2022. Photo: .