Between Structure and Absence
REMAIN is a contemporary art project by Helsinki-based artist Auma, exploring what stays visible after change. The works are built from reclaimed renovation materials — compounds, pigments, and construction remnants — shaped into textured surfaces where structure, erosion, and balance coexist.
The practice is rooted in contrast: permanence and fragility, control and rupture, the urban and the organic. Surfaces are layered, broken, and reassembled, allowing tension to remain rather than be resolved. Each work carries traces of process — pressure, pause, resistance — without narrative instruction.
REMAIN reflects an interest in spaces where different realities meet: dense city structures alongside open horizons, raw materials softened by time, solidity interrupted by absence. Every artwork is one-of-one, handmade, and intended to exist as a physical presence — not an image, not a statement, but an object that holds its own.
My mission
To create physical artworks that hold tension without resolving it.
REMAIN exists to explore material, surface, and presence — using reclaimed renovation materials to form works where permanence and fragility coexist. The mission is not to decorate spaces, but to introduce weight, texture, and quiet resistance into them.
My vision
REMAIN envisions contemporary art as something tactile and grounded.
The work moves between urban structure and open space, between control and erosion. The vision is to build a body of work that feels calm yet unsettled — artworks that remain relevant beyond trends, functioning as lasting physical objects in both private and architectural spaces.
The artist
Auma is a Helsinki-based artist working with textured abstraction and reclaimed materials. The practice is shaped by an interest in contrast: the built environment and natural elements, density and openness, presence and absence. Each artwork is handmade, one-of-one, and rooted in process rather than narrative, allowing the material and surface to speak first.
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