
Saimi Suikkanen
Skincare essentials, 2023
Oil on canvas
45.50 x 40.50 cm / 18 x 16 in
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Saimi Suikkanen
Everything piles up on this chair, 2023
Oil on canvas
94.50 x 89.50 cm / 37 x 35 in
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Saimi Suikkanen
A Day off, 2023
Oil on canvas
134.50 x 139 cm / 53 x 55 in
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Saimi Suikkanen
Get ready with me, 2022
Oil on canvas
55 x 45 cm / 22 x 18 in
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Saimi Suikkanen
Eyeshadow play, 2022
Oil on canvas
40 x 46 cm / 16 x 18 in
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Saimi Suikkanen
A Night out, 2022
Oil on canvas
65 x 60 cm / 26 x 24 in
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Saimi Suikkanen
Let’s fly away, 2022
Oil on canvas
45 x 35 cm / 18 x 14 in
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Saimi Suikkanen
The New Dress, 2022
Oil on canvas
95 x 90 cm / 37 x 35 in
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Saimi Suikkanen 2022.
Born in Imatra, Finland 1994 I Lives and works in Helsinki
Saimi Suikkanen’s paintings capture freeze-frame moments from her day-to-day existence, forming a visual diary reflecting on themes such as intimacy, human touch, and friendship. Her new paintings express how she longs to get out, have fun, and resume an active social life. She captures the tingle of excitement one feels before going to a party in depictions of herself applying makeup or choosing an outfit or letting her hair down on the dance floor or during a night out on the town. Sometimes the artist’s pining for her old life is so overwhelming that she feels virtually suffocated. Everyone needs occasional respite from the calamities overshadowing the contemporary world, from the global eco-crisis to the pandemic – we all need a momentary utopian escape from reality.
Saimi Suikkanen graduated in painting from the Saimaa University of Applied Sciences in 2017 and is currently completing her master’s degree at the Academy of Fine Arts, Uniarts Helsinki.