Hanna Råst (Finland)

Hanna Råst is a Helsinki based visual artist addressing themes of memory and trauma through sculpture, lens-based media, text, and installations. She often uses archival materials as her starting point to scrutinize how the past affects our present and future and what traces we leave behind.

During the residency at Malt AIR, Hanna Råst is addressing themes of empathy, care and softness in relation to her topics of memory and trauma. By focusing especially on performative and durational aspects of her artistic practice, and inviting the local art scene to a dialogue with her, she asks how we deal with memory and trauma in society and if the work of art can contain empathy when scrutinizing difficult topics.