Salla Aida

I am a Finnish visual artist, trained as a photographer and self-taught in both digital and traditional painting. My work is based on photographs of industrial and consumer waste and digitized watercolor paintings.

By combining these elements, I create layered digital compositions in which the organic and the industrial, the handmade and the machine-made, the unexpected and the controlled intertwine. The process is both intuitive and technical. Existing materials are continuously fragmented, transformed, and reconstructed - becoming a new digital medium with which I can paint.

Memory is a recurring theme in my work. Much like the materials I use, memories are not fixed records of the past but active constructions in which perceptions accumulate, fragment, distort, and reassemble. In this sense, memory is a dynamic process that is constantly reconfigured and reimagined.

Moving between the recognizable and the abstract, my works are detached from any specific time or place. They invite viewers to reflect on the ways memory shapes our understanding of change while questioning the reliability and permanence of what and how we remember.

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