Selina Suominen (Helsinki, 1974) graduated in 1998 from Lahti University of Applied Sciences, the Institute of Fine Arts, in Finland. After an exchange period at the Academy of Art and Design in ’s-Hertogenbosch, she decided to settle in the Netherlands. She has exhibited in both Finland and the Netherlands. Her works are part of the Malva-Lahti Museum of Visual Arts collection as well as various private collections.

In her new works, Suominen experiments with a variety of techniques, including stacking forms, altering scale, repetition, inversion, distortion, and mirroring. These approaches give her paintings a unique structure, pattern, and rhythm, while still allowing room for spontaneity. Rather than adhering to a single recognizable style, Suominen creates a dynamic network of ideas. Her method results in series of interrelated paintings, each with its own form and character. Her work invites the viewer to reflect on the world and to experience images in a new way.

Suominen holds that individual identity is constantly in motion, continually reshaping itself under the influence of surrounding forces. Some of these forces, previously hidden, come into view, while others quietly recede beneath the surface. The past—on which the identity of the present moment depends—is never static or frozen like a fly trapped in amber; rather, it is as malleable as the consciousness that recalls it.

In her work, Suominen brings together fragments in an apparently random way. Yet these fragments gradually arrange themselves into a meaningful whole: a pattern emerges that expresses her view of the inner world in general, and her own inner world in particular. Her work radiates a sense of openness, a certain dimensionality that allows for mystery and the inexplicable. Her pieces are rarely confined by strict contours, leaving space for ambiguity and interpretation.

Unlike her earlier solo exhibitions, which were centered around a specific theme, Suominen’s recent work seeks a broader, transcendent humanistic significance, with aspects such as vulnerability and everyday trivialities taking a central place.