Annika Dahlsten

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b. 1975, Vaasa
Visual artist
Residence: TURKU

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Artist’s Statement

“In stone lithography I’m fascinated by the beauty and complexity of drawing, and the possibility of re-producing and altering something so momentary as a drawn line. Drawing with liquid ink is very spontaneous but the whole printmaking process is about building up the image slowly, layer by layer. I’m interested in that contradiction”.

The themes of her works often include borderline states: the pauses between absence and presence, or moments when reality is distorted and something familiar and ordinary turns strange and uncanny.
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Annika Dahlsten (b. 1975, in Vaasa, Finland) is a printmaker and specialized in stone lithography. She also works with three dimensional forms and moving image, especially animation.