Aleksi Jaakkola
Basic information
b. 1973, Kristinestad
visual artist
Residence: Helsinki
Contact information
Email: aleksur@gmail.com
Artist’s Statement
I am a visual artist based in Helsinki. Landscape, places, nature, north, natural processes, and correlation are the subject matter of my practice. I do talk with stones, I admire mountains and seeking horizons, the journey is a part of the experience. I am trying to see through an invisible curtain. The north is echoing in me, where the sounds of silence are filling the space. – I am longing to have higher mountains in my home country.
Altogether, through my art, I would like to draw attention to equality between humans and nature. Creating interconnections and narrations, for instance, by communicating with stones helps one to understand it's own relationships within the surrounding world. The knowing creates narratives, fictional or factual, at the same time it generates value and changes the perception of how we experience our environment. With stories and the language of arts, I want to create a dialogue.
– How nature sees us, trees, places, water, and light, – what they can tell us.
My artistic practice focuses on creating meanings and correlation. Through employing a pragmatic, experience-based method for producing knowledge, which is combined with other information creates a new perception that then I present by artistic means.
Altogether, through my art, I would like to draw attention to equality between humans and nature. Creating interconnections and narrations, for instance, by communicating with stones helps one to understand it's own relationships within the surrounding world. The knowing creates narratives, fictional or factual, at the same time it generates value and changes the perception of how we experience our environment. With stories and the language of arts, I want to create a dialogue.
– How nature sees us, trees, places, water, and light, – what they can tell us.
My artistic practice focuses on creating meanings and correlation. Through employing a pragmatic, experience-based method for producing knowledge, which is combined with other information creates a new perception that then I present by artistic means.
