TIINA PALOLA

about the artist

I´m a visual artist. I come from the Central Ostrobothnia region, where agricultural industry coexists with folk art. Fiddles and fox farming, horse races and folk healing characterize my home town Kaustinen. Nature and animals have always had a strong presence in my life. My interest in human behavior and our relation to environment and other living beings is one of the main things that inform my body of work.

I want to visualize my feelings and thoughts, express rather than illustrate them. I want to move. 

I make images, I paint rocks, I stand on a tree stump in a cut forest, I build a bird´s nest big enough to fit in. Are human beings able to sustain what´s left? How is it possible to live in something and yet preserve it? I want to make questions clear to myself. I want to act rather than philosophize. 

My main media is photography, as that I feel is somehow a very still, clean and stable media. Digital photography leaves me with urge to add dimension and craft to my works. I´m very keen to combine still image, film and sculpted material into installations in order to vary my expression. 

I use collected natural material as well as recycled and found things. 

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photo: Krista Järvelä

EDUCATION

2013 - 2016    MA in photography, Aalto University

2004 - 2008    BA in photography, University of Art and Design, Helsinki

2000 - 2003    Bachelor of Sociocultural Work, Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2020    Lohtu, Poriginal Galleria, Pori

2019    On Disappearance, together with Mia Damberg, Patricia Rodas and Essi Orpana, Latvia Museum of Photography

2017    Äänesi on kuin tuuli, together with Essi Orpana, Pohjanmaan Valokuvakeskus, Lapua

2017    Luonnontilassa, together with Maria Leppänen, Folk Arts Centre, Kaustinen

2016    Olemassaolon yrityksiä, together with Maria Leppänen, Karvia Willin kansan viikko, Karvia

2016    PLAYGROUND, together with Jaana Lahti-Luopa, Galleria 2, Pirkkala

2016    8 pientä tarinaa, together with Maria Leppänen, Kaustinen Folk Music Festival

2015    PLAYGROUND, together with Jaana Lahti-Luopa, Tupakkamakasiini, Pietarsaari

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GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2019        Oxygenum, Suomen Pohjoismainen Taideliitto, Vetelin Taidekartano

2018        SILENCE, Seinäjoki Art Hall

2017        Taide liikuttaa, Pohjanmaan valokuvakeskus ja Taike Pohjanmaa

2016        Luonnos, Galleria Väliaika, Kokkola

2016        Levottomia unia, Wiurilan kesä, Salo

2016        PAKO, Vetelin Taidekartano