Emilia Tikka is a transdisciplinary artist and researcher based in Berlin, originally from Finland. Her studio doubles as her home and serves as a unique research lab. Tikka's work engages with the complex relationship between cultural history and biomedical sciences. Her project 'ÆON' provokes philosophical questions about aging and eternal life, encapsulated in poignant photographs that reveal the societal consequences of genetic research. Through her art, Tikka highlights the uncomfortable yet necessary dialogues surrounding innovations in biotechnology.
Entering the studio, which is also her home, we cross through the living room into a tidy office. With a sofa, a desk and walls lined with bookshelves from floor to ceiling, her home studio is a coordinated research lab of its own.
Tikka's fascination with the inextricable link between cultural history and biomedical sciences becomes apparent. This topic spans her practice, notably in her work 'ÆON' from 2018, which leans into the philosophical question of ageing and eternal life.
Posing the uncomfortable questions that inevitably follow innovation, Tikka's works highlight the societal implications of the research happening in biotechnology and genetics today.
Based on research in gene-editing technology, the work culminates in a series of photographs—one of which is hung across from where we are sitting. Showing a couple sharing a tender, sombre moment, with some 40 years between them.
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