Originally from Kemi and currently Helsinki based visual artist Sari Palosaari works in the fields of sculpture, installation and site-sensitive spatial ensembles. Palosaari’s work draws on an expanded and socio-ecologically attuned understanding of the built environment as an all-encompassing habitat, where interrelated metabolisms of matter and energy interact across scales. ​

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Her work emerges from the materials foraged at the intersections of infrastructure and nature manifesting either as combinations of simple gestures, as assemblages and as layers within architectural space. Her process is guided by a sensitivity to emotional, affective, and sensory registers. She is drawn to tracing the movement of bodies and the circulations of matter and energy, but also to enact cuts through spacetimes and scales. In doing so, she opens up space for unexpected connections and the possibility for magical to appear.

 

 During 2026 her artistic practice is kindly supported by Alfred Kordelin Foundation.