Ella Rahkonen

About the Artist

Ella Rahkonen (b. 1994 Helsinki) works in a space between sculpture, multi-part installations, images and writing. Ella is interested in tense moments, love and word combinations.

Exhibitions

BFA Exhibition 2025

12 September – 5 November 2025
Kuva/Tila

About the artwork

Is there something unpleasant buried in the bargain bins*?

Do I want to magnify them?

This installation seeks to explore awkwardness and its inevitability. I also think about the subject through the structures of danger and safety. With fragmented images, enlarged and cast forms, I present work that flutters, breaks apart, weighs down, and reveals sharp edges.

*Bargain bins are a place into which something forgotten, not wanted, has been pushed. A place where things get lost and perhaps have lost their value. Some bargain bins justify skipping school.  
Maybe to find a new top?