Photography is the foundation of Ylijaasko’s practice, but not its limit.

Ylijaasko is a Finnish artist whose painterly photographic practice explores silence, memory, solitude, and the quiet tension between the visible and the imagined.

  • November is a Beginning

    A long-term photographic work on displacement, waiting, and fragile everyday life inside a Syrian Kurdish refugee community in Istanbul.

  • Finnish Sauna

    A photographic work exploring sauna as a charged space of ritual, body, silence, cleansing, and Finnish cultural memory.

  • Frozen Warriors

    A photographic work on labour, endurance, cold, and the temporary architecture of the Snow Castles.

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