Anna Hyrkkänen often creates her works by studying light in different spaces and materials. Her practice is guided by the aspiration to understand the behavior of matter. Seeing light as matter is both a concrete and an interpretative part of the works.

In the core of Hyrkkänen’s new works is the human as a biological being, and the human mind’s ability to transcend the limitations of time and materiality; the non-simultaneity of the inner and outer worlds. The distance between concrete and abstract disappears in the pieces that utilize different imaging techniques. A coronary angiogram and a CT scan reveal the stacking of different realities; our body continues living in the present moment while our minds wander through immeasurable periods of time, for instance, to the beginning of the Universe.