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Aiko Tsukahara is interested in space and installation-based sculpture, text, time and the consistence of material. Her installations and sculpture often include an optical illusion, a conceptual paradox or a question of the very existence of the reality around us. Philosophy and wit are an essential part of the minimalistic style of Tsukahara`s art. Beautifully carved and installed, her artwork goes beyond aesthetics and asks what is behind the conception of space as we perceive it. Aiko Tsukahara`s playfully engaging works flirt with aesthetics and optical theory. They encapsulate ideas into new forms that intrigue thinking, both in relation to Western and Eastern Asian art history. Form and content, often conceived as separate entities in the theory of art, are one in Tsukahara`s subtle work.

Minerals often crystallize in geometric shapes and grow in clusters as if they were underground architecture within the planet. Architecture specimen is a structural experiment of nature-made and man-made in the format of architectural model.

Aiko Tsukahara (b. 1980) is a Helsinki-based Japanese Visual Artist. She has graduated from Kyoto City University of Arts in 2006 and has studied in Aalto University School of Art, Design and Architecture. She has had several exhibitions in Finland and abroad and her art is in the State of Finland and the Bank of Finland art collections.

www.aikotsukahara.com