Eeva-Liisa Anttila

About the artist

Eeva-Liisa Anttila (b. 1988) is a visual artist and printmaker from Helsinki. In her works, Anttila uses various printing techniques and archived images. Her practice is inspired by the tradition of poster art, the art movement of concretism and xerox aesthetics. 

The artist is interested in the immediacy of looking at an image and how the fine art print becomes part of a temporary collage installation. 

Exhibitions

BFA Exhibition 2025

12 September – 5 November 2025
Kuva/Tila

About the artwork

Silver Box is a collage glued to the space. The installation contains hundreds of individual silkscreen prints. The starting point of my work was to create an image that can be encountered only as a momentary experience. The artwork itself is strictly connected to traditions of printed art – emphasizing materiality and the physical, slow, even heavy workflow of printmaking.

The work includes images from old guidebooks, which were especially popular in home libraries from the 1970s to the 1990s. When searching for information shifted to the digital age, browsing the pages of printed illustrated books lost significance. The discarded books at recycling centres tell a story of everyday problems to which people were seeking solutions at the time.

The momentary nature of the installation is a reference to other printed products, such as posters glued to the street. When looking at the work, one can reflect on how technological development has changed the search for information. The work itself examines nostalgia, outdated print media and the use of archival images in artworks. Above all, it seeks to raise a question about the value of a fine art print in relation to its presentation format.

Endless Drop

1–17 November 2024
Kuva/Tila