Aino Raatikainen

About the artwork

The joint title of a seven-part body of works is Night Window. Composed of oil paintings of varying sizes, the work’s design and the way it was hung was inspired by the properties of the high exhibition space. The paintings were inspired by a fascination with layers, boundaries, and transitions that take place within the mind, in time, and on canvas. The continuous motion, which takes place between the non-existent and the material, the surface and the internal, the observation and the image, is intriguing.

You can examine an artwork from the perspective of the story it tells, its symbols, colour composition, joke, or theoretical framework. However, as many famous thinkers have said, we don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.