artist
Mari Sunna
- Finland, 1972
Mari Sunna paints people. Free and easily. Her pictures depict enigmatic figures, usually women, with coarse features that seem to be dissolved in front of us. Each painting thus requires the active position of the spectator, a decision about which properties we want to attribute to the peculiarly moving human shadows. In an interview, Mari Sunna says that the portrait comes from her inner images. The impulse does not go from eye to hand but from a performance to paper. Sunna claims that she cannot, in fact, draw, but experiences this inability as a gift. Her art is never about an aesthetic seduction, but about new possibilities for designing something that is behind the face mask. Sunna studied at Lahti’s School of Art and Design and at the Chelsea College of Art and Design, where she graduated in 2000.
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