Toucy

She lives and works in Helsinki, graduated at University of Helsinki (Master in Political Science), studies photography at Arts Academy Turku and visual arts: photography, painting, drawing, digital visual art at Aalto University/ARTS/Open. ​She participated in several photography workshops and mentoring programs in France (Masterclass in Paris 2019 and 2023, in the workshops in Arles, les Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie 2019 - 2025). She worked in the artist residency at Cité internationale des arts in Paris 2024.

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She is interested in using photography as a means for exploring the environment she lives in. Her artistic approach is often based on the narratives of people close to her. She studies how connections evolve and transform. How do individuals interact with the changes in their immediate environment?

 

Her works evoke the world of present and past between real and imaginary. The desire of expressing the invisible, often without an interest in objectivity, is present in her images. The metaphors and symbols in her photograps lead either into a real-world narrative or into an imaginary realm.​

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She works as Senior OD Consultant (art -based learning in human resources development, diversity & inclusion DEI) at her company Diversa Consulting (www.diversa.fi), previously in research on reproductive health services for United Nations Population Fund in Rabat, Morocco and in short term assignments in Indonesia and Tanzania.