Anssi Pulkkinen
Basic information
b. 1982, Helsinki
visual artist
Residence: Helsinki
Contact information
Phone number: +358505362306
Email: apulkkin@gmail.com
Artist’s Statement
I create architectural and site-specific interventions within interiors and outdoor, public space. My work is grounded in observations of everyday environments, places and politically charged spaces: how we live in them, relate to them and imagine them. The artistic gestures are often delicate operations that serenely distort these observations, with humour. As a visual language I use travesty or mimicry, whereby the works disguise themselves as elements from a familiar environment; once inserted in a daily setting they literally multiply the view and the experience thereof. These elements seem to exceed or rupture the system of here and now, to exceed or rupture man’s organization of space and time. They are elements of disruption in an organized world – glimpses of disarray.
