Linn Byrkjeland

b. 1991, Korsholm, Finland

A Slender Arc of Light, 2023
Installation of paintings: acrylic paint on cotton canvas

Mikrokosmos, 2023
Graphite drawings on paper

Linn Byrkjeland uses painting and drawing to create visual narratives in a mythologically charged universe inspired by the forests of Korsholm, Finland, where she grew up. The creatures and the scenarios she constructs move between earthly elements, space and other dimensions. Byrkjeland combines the rational with the absurd, methodically unravelling our deeply rooted perceptions of reality and allowing us to be embraced by a parallel world.

In A Slender Arc of Light, Byrkjeland explores colour, shape and movement in image and space. Using powerful brushstrokes and floating paintings, she creates windows into her universe as a way of looking in and looking out. These windows are the borders between dimensions and space, transparent connections between two worlds.

See the interview with Linn Byrkjeland.