Titanik gallery, Turku
Gravity Blanket is a mixed media project of photographs and sculptures exploring neurodivergence, touch, resilience, and embodied knowledge. Drawing from my autistic experience, I center sensory perception as both subject and method, using my sensitivities to guide material choices and challenge neuronormative ideas of wellness, agency, and communication.
The photographs, made with a scanner to flatten focus and highlight details, reflect a neuroqueer gaze—one that resists fixed meaning. The sculptural works, like the title piece Gravity Blanket (2021)—a delicate but intimidating, glass-filled weighted blanket—address the complexities of neurodivergent coping.
As an autistic artist, I question the inaccessibility of the art world and seek practices that don’t exclude or harm neurodivergent individuals.
The work was first exhibited at Titanik gallery (Turku, Finland) in August 2021 and in Kuvan Kevät graduating masters’ degree show at Exhibition Laboratory (Helsinki, Finland) in May 2021.
