Artist of the day: Artist of the day, September 24, 2021: Anna Estarriola, a Finnish emerging artist (#1373)

Helsinki-based visual artist Anna Estarriola has resided as the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts and Saastamoinen Foundation artist-in-residence at the International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP) at different points between January 2020 and April 2021. During her residency, which has taken place both in-person and online, Estarriola has been working on new commissions, connecting with NYC-based curators, and preparing for ISCP’s online Open Studios event. FCINY’s Elina Suoyrjö sat down with Estarriola to discuss her current projects, creative processes, and her experiences of the turbulent year.

Her work reflects on the perception and categorization of reality and on structures of communication and patterns of behavior of organisms and environments.

Anna works with sculpture, sound, moving image, bodies and electronics to create sculptural media installations and performances. These speculate about the certainties and the unknown as well as about the shifting definitions of truth, and our affiliations to it all. She approaches each of the mediums involved through the lens of the performative. She stages objects, images, scenes or sequences for the viewer to confront or to enter, fostering the illusion of enactment, existence and presence in the inanimate.

Her work filters and recreates phenomena and circumstances. Drawing from social and natural sciences as well as systems of belief, she considers the properties of materiality, the modes of coexistence and the cycles of appearance and disappearance.

© 2021. All content on this blog is protected by international copyright laws All images are copyrighted © by Anna Estarriola. Apart from fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review as permitted under the Copyright Act, the use of any image from this site is prohibited unless prior written permission is obtained. All images used for illustrative purposes only