Jessica Luostarinen Finland, b. 1993

Jessica Luostarinen is a painter working primarily in oil, exploring how identity is constructed, performed and protected. Her work examines the emotional and psychological strategies we develop to navigate the world and how meaning is carried through objects, gestures and repeated rituals. Drawing from film stills, found imagery, personal snapshots and constructed still lifes, Luostarinen is interested in moments of transition, where roles are being prepared rather than fully performed. Everyday objects and small acts of behaviour take on symbolic weight, becoming vessels for memory, belief and internal states shaped through ritual and repetition.

Working with a restrained, often monochromatic palette, Luostarinen directs attention toward gesture, tone and surface. Her paintings develop in interconnected series, allowing meaning to emerge gradually through subtle shifts rather than fixed narratives.