Hertta Kiiski is an artist working with photography, moving image, objects, space and oftentimes with her own daughters. In her works she aims to elevate the intensity of places where she both makes and shows her work through creating semi-fictional and semi-constructed platforms for encounters between people and things. Kiiski´s interest lays in human-nonhuman relationships, in the ontology of material as well as one´s relationship to a camera. Associations and spontaneity play a central role in her work. She aims for the kind of haptic visuality where eyes operate like the sense of touch – striving to combine the photographic and the sculptural, blurring the boundaries between image and spatiality – materializing the gaze.
Kiiski holds an MFA from the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts (2015). Her earlier studies include e.g. Latin and Art History. Her work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions, this summer at Hippolyte, SIC and Titanik galleries in Finland and kmS in Estonia. Her second book ”I Was an Apple and I got Peeled – But It Was a Good Thing” is published by Kehrer Verlag September 2016. Hertta Kiiski lives and works in Turku, Finland.
