Riikka’s surreal collages juxtapose imagery that otherwise would not be caught together: human faces and body parts, flowers, plants, cars, and many other paraphernalia. She consciously reduces the number of elements more and more, until achieving a zen minimalism of sorts. The witty, humorously subversive works, so much more than the sums of the parts, attest to her substantial awareness of surrealism, Pop-art and Dadaism, and her command over the evoking, mystical power of the visual.

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