Maria Liitola, born 1982
Bachelor of Culture and Arts / Kuvataiteilija AMK
Turku University of Applied Sciences / Turun Taideakatemia (2011)
Master of Culture and Arts, Student / Kuvataiteilija YAMK
Turku University of Applied Sciences / Turun Taideakatemia (2019)
Fine artist, graduated from Pori Art school and Art Academy of Turku University of Applied Sciences (BA 2011). MA student.
Lives and works in Turku, Finland. Work is concentrated on charcoal drawing techniques and acrylic/spray painting.
I’m interested in the concept of bodily space and Being. I draw and paint people in photorealistic style, caught in a split second of time. I study the relation of the mind and the body, and the ownership of it in its physical surroundings. My work comments the word ”Freedom” as a noun that defines the right and power to be as one wants, and the state of, as a controversy, being imprisoned by the standards of others or oneself. I combine the photorealistic drawing to markmaking and tagging familiar from the graffiti street art, as a comparison to the ideal of Freedom and self-expression.
Figures that are partly visible and photorealistic while fading in the background, lead to the basic questions of existentialism: the edges of being and non-being.