The paintings in the exhibition have their roots in feelings of eerie, charged atmospheres. Weird and unknown elements entangle with the cozy and familiar. Soft-bodied creatures bump into coarse structures. Paint in all its insurgency takes its own routes. The creatures or phenomena in the paintings often bleed into each other, are only vaguely remembered, or waver in between several ways of being.
Noora Kaunisto is a visual artist working in Helsinki. She is currently finishing her master’s degree in the Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki. Formerly she has graduated as a professional painter from the Free Art School and as Ecologist and Evolutionary biologist from the University of Jyväskylä. She is interested in narrativity and memory, and obscure forms of mourning. Her work has been exhibited in four solo exhibitions and several group exhibitions.