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Disguised Messages by

Tiina Pyykkinen plays with space, time, and perception. Her intriguing panels, created on mirrored steel, continuously shift based on light and viewpoint. During production, an adhesive layer protects the surface during the colouring process. This layer is only partially removed afterwards, revealing shadow-based forms.

The result invites interaction: the viewer is literally reflected and merges with the image, transforming the painting into a fluid experience. Pyykkinen explores how a “moving image” can emerge—monochromatic yet multicoloured, stable yet elusive. Her work reflects the human condition: layered, fluid, and ever-changing. ‘Disguised Messages’ invites a moment of reflection on our place in a complex reality.

Tiina Pyykkinen (b. 1983) is a Helsinki-based visual artist who works primarily with paintings and installations. Her practice is focused on the themes of communication, individual and collective memory, and time and its disorder as a bodily experience.
Pyykkinen uses various combinations of material and light creating multi-layered works that engage in a dialogue with space, movement, and the viewer`s perceptual experience. Her works are temporal and spatial, in which visuality is in constant flux.
This work is part of the expo ‘Colour, seeing beyond pigment’ and shows the artistic output of the research project ‘Ecology of Colour’ .bio in

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Scientist: Maria Boto

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