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Finland
https://saaralintunen.portfoliobox.net
@saara_lintunen
Residency period: July 2026
Saara Lintunen is a visual artist from Helsinki whose practice spans drawing, painting, ceramics and printmaking. Over the past two years she has focused primarily on drawing. Her work explores themes of nature, memory and human presence through everyday objects.
Inspired by the northern landscapes of Finland, where her roots lie, Saara’s drawings blend memory with observation. Flowers, plants, birds, textiles and curtains take on symbolic roles. Nature fills the space while the human figure remains unseen, leaving traces of life in garments, fabrics and architecture.
For Saara, drawing is a slow meditative process that allows her to immerse herself in the landscape and its details.
Rebecca Krasnik has joined us here at SÍM Residency in May 2026 as part of the Nordic Analog Network Darkroom Exchange Program.
As part of the program, Rebecca hosted a Darkroom Workshop at Ljósmyndaskólinn on Saturday 23rd.
We are pleased to welcome artist and photographer Rebecca Krasnik to our residency program. Working across analogue photography, historic printmaking techniques, and computer-generated imagery, Krasnik’s practice explores the evolving relationship between physical and digital image-making.
Her work moves fluidly between artist books, sculptural installations, and augmented reality (AR), creating encounters that contrast bodily experience with digital representations of time and space. Through these layered approaches, Krasnik investigates how emerging technologies continue to shape the ways we create, perceive, and interact with images today.
During her residency, Krasnik is continuing her experimental research into photographic processes that bridge digital and analogue methods, bringing tactile, material practices into dialogue with screen-based imagery.
The residency is supported by the Nordic Analog Network in collaboration with Ljósmyndaskólinn.
Darkroom Workshop: Digital Contact Prints
As part of her stay, Rebecca Krasnik lead a hands-on workshop introducing participants to digital contact prints through experimental darkroom processes.
Using light emitted from screens, participants transformed digital images into analogue photographic prints. The workshop explored how water, physicality, and manual handling can be reintroduced into the creation of otherwise digital images.
Krasnik presented examples from her own experimental practice, providing an introduction to the technique, and guiding participants through their own darkroom experiments.
Images above: Rebecca Krasnik's work. Images courtesy of Rebecca Krasnik.
Images above: Documentation of darkroom workshop, 'Digital Contact Prints'. images courtesy of Rebecca Krasnik.
SÍM Residency presents In Resonance — a group exhibition by artists-in-residence originally on view at SÍM Project Space in March 2026, the exhibition is now available as a virtual experience until July 16th.
Follow the link to enter the virtual exhibition: https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=pLecJx3EDoH
Participating Artists:
Luna van der Straaten she/her - NL
Igor Schiller he/him - RS/NL
Debbie Chen she/her - USA
Heesoo Agnes Kim she/her - ROK
Sunny Ely they/them - CA
