Henni Kitti

Henni Kitti

Henni Kitti is a visual artist and a novelist. She makes images with a variety of media. Kitti graduated from the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts in 2011 and has studied Comparative Literature and Creative Writing at Turku University. Her debut novel Elävän näköiset (WSOY) was published 2014, and the second novel Majakka (työnimi) by S&S in 2024.

Humans’ relationship to knowledge, science and nature are recurring themes in her work. She began by studying human-animal relationship, and later this expanded to cover different ways in which we (don’t) understand ourselves as part of the bigger whole of the planet.

In her recent visual works subjects and themes transform and evolve from one work to the next; images and forms get mirrored and reflected from paper to paper, from video to text. Her works deal with humans’ ways of explaining and mapping the world for themselves. She’s interested in juxtapositions between different shapes, phenomena, and ways of thinking or presenting things. She brings various motifs next to each other and searches for analogies between them or makes them up. Empty spaces and composition also play a crucial part in her works, which resemble maps, picture books, or scientific collections.

Location

Uusimaa

Born

1985

Website

https://www.hennikitti.com/

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