Helsinki-based artist Anna Tuori (b. 1976) explores the tension between what is visible and what remains concealed. Her practice centres on how reality is perceived—and whether it may at times be grasped only indirectly, through imagination, fiction, or illusion. Tuori regards reality not as fixed or unequivocal, but as delicate, contradictory, and at times unsettling. Reflecting this, she approaches it not through analytical certainty, but by embracing ambiguity, fluidity, and paradox.

Her paintings weave together a range of painterly strategies: translucent, almost weightless layers of colour are set in dialogue with rich, tactile applications of oil paint. Fluid, watery gestures intersect with areas of pronounced physical presence. Painting, for Tuori, is not a contained system but an open arena in which formal and emotional dimensions unfold in parallel.

The works enter into a subtle dialogue with the traditions of still life, memento mori, and nature morte. Yet rather than presenting objects in calm, carefully ordered arrangements, Tuori appears to set them into motion—an outward movement that seems to emanate from within. In doing so, she dissolves the boundaries between interior and exterior, surface and depth. Walls become façades that both shelter and obscure. The image itself evolves into a space where questions of vulnerability, transience, and revelation surface—while intentionally resisting any definitive resolution.

A pivotal element in Tuori’s practice is the physical encounter between brush and canvas. She is captivated by the brushstroke’s ability to register both hesitation and certainty, momentum and stillness, candour and illusion. The deliberate pace of her working process—and its alignment with the notion of painting as a handmade craft—functions not as an exercise in nostalgia, but as a deliberate counterpoint to a culture of constant acceleration. Rhythm, pattern, and repetition shape the compositions, yet without ever settling into stillness.

Where: Contemporary Fine Arts,

   Grolmanstrasse 32/33 10623 Berlin

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