Aleksi Jaakkola is a visual artist based in Reykjavik, Iceland.
He holds a Master’s degree in Visual Culture and Contemporary Art (Environmental Art) from Aalto University, as well as a background in Contemporary Art from Taidekoulu Maa, Helsinki, and a BA in English Language and British Culture with History from Middlesex University, London.
Landscape, places, nature, the north, natural processes, and correlation are the subject matter of his practice. He talks with stones, admires mountains, and seeks horizons, the journey itself becomes part of the experience. He tries to see through an invisible curtain. The north echoes within him, where the sounds of silence fill the space.
Altogether, through his art, he aims to draw attention to equality between humans and nature. By creating interconnections and narrations, for instance, through communicating with stones, he helps others to understand their own relationship with the surrounding world. This knowledge generates narratives, fictional or factual, and at the same time creates value, shifting the perception of how the environment is experienced. With stories and the language of arts, he creates a dialogue.
–How does nature see us? Trees, places, water, and light
—what do they have to tell us?
His artistic practice focuses on creating meanings and correlations. By employing a pragmatic, experience-based method for producing knowledge, which he combines with other information, he forms a new perception, one that he then presents through artistic means.
