(s.1967)
Tuulipiirturit, 2000
Senne, 2001-2003

Works by artist Tuula Närhinen combine a scientist’s and an artist’s perspectives on nature and its observation. Närhinen studies natural phenomena with methods she has developed herself. Her works are installations, which can consist of photographs, drawings, watercolours or objects. She has, for instance, studied the field of vision of different animals with cameras she made herself, let trees draw the movement of their branches on paper, and studied the possibilities of photography with light and light-sensitive natural materials. By questioning the traditional nature documentary, in which creatures are objects, she obliterates the boundaries between art and documentary depiction.

Tuula Närhinen received her M.A. from the Academy of Fine Arts in 1991 and has also studied architecture at the Helsinki University of Technology.