Johanna Kestilä

Johanna Porkka’s art transgress the boundaries of Finnish art: she assemblies’ pieces of canvas into artwork which fuses painting and fiberart. She benefits many several elements of visual art in her work of arts.

Her art assemblies are signs of her bodily and tactile vitality, setting her drives in lines, rhythms, colours, and forms. Her kind of artistic creation is an adventure between body and signs which bear evidence of affections without symbolic significations in social discourses. Her art speaks in poetic formlanguage to be interpreted in cultural intertextually. her assemblies are composed of tender baby-pink arches, deep blues ponds, raging black zigzag lines, fuzzy grey stains and spots, swinging red writings of time tables.

Vuokko Takala-Schreib, DrA, Professor Emerita, Researcher of Visual Culture

“I am interested in choices, mistakes and continuity. My way of working is slow and jagged, the work
grows slowly through many coincidences. I just try to stay alert. For me, the process itself is the most
interesting thing.”
“My paintings tell and show how emotions and emotional experiences present themselves for me in a visual form.

Johanna Kestilä