Pyyhkala's new series "The Split Up" will be her first solo show in her native country. In the series the artist uses mostly diptych's - split images. The theme explores what happens during a split up; be it a split in a relationship, a split in thinking or disassociation from places one has lived. more >>>

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Pyyhkala's photography is naturally theatrical and presents passing moments or seemingly insignificant objects as profound symbols, while simultaneously maintaining an essential and striking abstract function. This is often accentuated by linking images in diptych or triptych to create provocative colour, texture or linear relationships in juxtaposition with loaded iconography.

The images seem to emanate directly from the unconscious, they are silent and chilling in their simple depiction of unrest.

The combination of images seemingly captured by chance with subtly staged events is characteristic of Pyyhkala's work and oddly persuasive. It forces a kind of seeing which removes an image from its context and promotes its inherent textural and atmospheric qualities, presenting living itself as a stream of constant stimuli and meanings. There is a fluidity and a connectedness across the works which draws the viewer through a succession of different states of consciousness.