Anna Hyrkkänen often creates her works by studying light in different spaces and materials. Her practice is guided by an aspiration to understand the behavior of matter.

Seeing light as matter is both a concrete and an interpretative part of the works. The theme of her latest works is humans as biological beings, and the ability of the human mind to transcend the limitations of time and materiality; the non-simultaneity of the inner and outer worlds.

Her starting point is at the same time anthropocentric and post-human: she views humans like any other organism that functions in accordance with the laws of nature. In her practice she integrates sculpture, lights, photographs and video material into installations.