My name is Alexandra Koskinen, I am a 25 year old Finnish/Peruvian artist based in Helsinki. Through my practice I seek to use the human form as a means to process the strangeness and absurdity of the collective human experience. Embedded with themes of morality, memory and (cultural) identity, I explore the edges of what we define as shared consciousness through distortions and surreal transformations of my subjects, in the hopes of encouraging self reflection. I work primarily with oil paint and relief printing but dabble into glass sculptures, as well as video performance, always relying upon text based work as a foundation for my images; pursuing the recollection, resurfacing and redesign of known narratives.

My practice in itself consists of surrealist images, with interconnected themes that vary from year to year. I have explored my personal relationships with Alzheimer’s disease and its psychological and physiological effects on the body as an edifice. Transformed different cultural proverbs into visual imagery and expanded upon their moral resonance in society. I have also unravelled the repression and objectification of women in the domestic setting, while looking at gendered romantic languages. My latest line of work is defined by a focus on childhood; revolving around ideas of birth and rebirth, imagination, loss of innocence, and identity. Underlined with eeriness that appears in grotesque or ironic distortions of reality, the work strives for a retrospective look homeward that is nostalgic and sentimental, yet strange.

On the other hand my research focuses on the intersection between artistic and curatorial production, looking at the formation of meaning/intentions/interpretations, and how these are curated not only by space and discourse but by deeply ingrained artistic and epistemological ideologies. I am interested in how these curatorial practices can be used to challenge hierarchies of visibility.