Lyy Raitala (1999) is a Finnish lens-based artist living in the Netherlands. She stages reality by composing images and video scenes and by creating interventions in space. In her work, she plays with familiar elements unexpectedly and uses everyday absurdity as a tool to suggest narratives that often emerge from personal experiences and observations around her. Her work tackles different topics such as various forms of femininity, the compulsion for productivity, and the artificiality of surroundings. She is interested in how the staging of reality has both humoristic and eerie qualities and how that can suggest narratives that change our perception of the real and give room for imagination. Her inspiration comes from the daily choreographies and moments that break the normality and mundane. She uses video, photography, and installation to create visual narratives.
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Exhibitions
The Lucky Potato Under the Bed, duo exhibition, Asbestos art space, Helsinki, 2024
Klauzura, group exhibition, Umprum, Prague, 2023
, the pigeons took the house, group exhibition, Brouwersgracht 25, The Hague, 2023
As above, so below, group exhibition by the Fool collective, The Grey space in the middle, The Hague, 2023
A mouse took my homework, I took the mouse, the pigeons took the house, group exhibition, Brouwersgracht 25, The Hague, 2022
Concrete affection, group exhibition, off-site, Nikosia, 2022
We do/are photography, group exhibitions by the Fool collective, Cologne, 2022
Our Natures– Interpretations of National Romanticism, group exhibition, Photofuss group, Hippolyte Gallery, Helsinki 2021
Liminal Spaces, group exhibition, Photofuss group, Hippolyte Gallery, Helsinki 2020
Publications
Featured in Y-Axis publication, The Drama Corporation (DC), 2024
Featured in Trickle publication, The Fool collective, 2022
Featured in Torso magazine, run by students from Aalto University of Arts, Helsinki, 2022
Education
The Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, Bachelor of Photography, 2020-2024
Grants
Oulu Educational Foundation (Oulun valistusrahaston apuraha), grant for artistic work, 2023