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![One-bedroom apartment]( "One-bedroom apartment")
infoA room has a function and a feeling, in square meters. It has stains on the wall and the marks on the floor, solutions, memories. Ventilators, sockets, pipes connecting to the neighbour's house and back. It has folds and crumbles, and circulating air.
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![One-bedroom apartment]( "One-bedroom apartment")
infoA room has a function and a feeling, in square meters. It has stains on the wall and the marks on the floor, solutions, memories. Ventilators, sockets, pipes connecting to the neighbour's house and back. It has folds and crumbles, and circulating air.
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infoA room has a function and a feeling, in square meters. It has stains on the wall and the marks on the floor, solutions, memories. Ventilators, sockets, pipes connecting to the neighbour's house and back. It has folds and crumbles, and circulating air.
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![One-bedroom apartment]( "One-bedroom apartment")
infoA room has a function and a feeling, in square meters. It has stains on the wall and the marks on the floor, solutions, memories. Ventilators, sockets, pipes connecting to the neighbour's house and back. It has folds and crumbles, and circulating air.
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infoA room has a function and a feeling, in square meters. It has stains on the wall and the marks on the floor, solutions, memories. Ventilators, sockets, pipes connecting to the neighbour's house and back. It has folds and crumbles, and circulating air.
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![Equine Maintenance]( "Equine Maintenance")
infoThe video work captures the interaction between horses and the engineered environments designed for their maintenance, exploring the relationship between horses and technology in contemporary equine care. Once vital to labor and agriculture, the horse now finds itself in controlled spaces of leisure and wellness, where machines dictate movement and routine. Set within the sterile environments of equine healthcare, the work reflects on themes of care and control, nature and machine, organic life and mechanized systems. The wellness treatments become both a tool of healing and a symbol of how animal life is shaped by industrial rhythms.
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![Equine Maintenance]( "Equine Maintenance")
infoThe video work captures the interaction between horses and the engineered environments designed for their maintenance, exploring the relationship between horses and technology in contemporary equine care. Once vital to labor and agriculture, the horse now finds itself in controlled spaces of leisure and wellness, where machines dictate movement and routine. Set within the sterile environments of equine healthcare, the work reflects on themes of care and control, nature and machine, organic life and mechanized systems. The wellness treatments become both a tool of healing and a symbol of how animal life is shaped by industrial rhythms.
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Clip from the video work Recess
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![Recess]( "Recess")
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![Recess]( "Recess")
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![Recess]( "Recess")
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![Recess]( "Recess")
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Clip from the video work Counting stars, shooting sheep
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![Garden at the end of the tunnel]( "Garden at the end of the tunnel")
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![Biomechanist]( "Biomechanist")
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The Servers
Curriculum vitae
Education
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2020 - 2024The Bachelor of Photography Den Haag, Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten diploma
exhibitions
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2026And hope it survives the night Export Rotterdam, Netherlands Group
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2026A Box Set With Three Corners Het Archief Rotterdam, Netherlands Group
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2026The coldest day of the year The Servers The Hague, Netherlands “I woke up this morning to a softly humming silence. I woke up this morning to a soft hum of silence. A low sound, lower than usual. A slow frequency. It must have been the temperature dropping, Frost came to the house last night and slowed everything down. That is what happens when it gets cold; everything goes slower. Even the birds stopped singing for the occasion. Or maybe they still sing but it is too cold for their song to reach my room – sound travels slower in cold air, you know. The glass of water next to the bed was cold as well and I took a sip. It felt like swallowing an ice cube.“* the-servers.net/exposervers Group
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2025Please RSVP The Servers The Hague, Netherlands A group exhibition about pleonasms—the curious, the attendant, the superfluous act of repetition that sneaks into language and meaning. In a world fueled by efficiency, pleonasms represent something that doesn’t quite fit the system with their excessiveness, but they reveal something essential; a desire to reinforce, to underline, to return to the point of departure again. “End result.” Redundant or unnecessary? Yes. But also kind of revealing. the-servers.net/exposervers Group
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2025
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2025Soft Assembly Oblong Copenhagen, Denmark Group
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2025
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2024No strings attached Anafi Film Festival Anafi, Greece Screening of my video work "Recess" as a part of the Anafi Film festival program "No strings attached." www.anafifilmfestival.com Group
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2024Graduation show The Royal Academy of Art, The Hague The Hague, Netherlands Showing video work "Recess" in the Royal Academy of Art graduation show as a part of my Bachelor degree. www.kabk.nl/en/graduation-show Group
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2024Lucky potato under the bed Asbestos Art Space Helsinki, Finland Duo show with artist Sanna Nykänen in the Asbestos Art Space in Helsinki. The work looks at the potato as a symbol of luxury, rest, and ease. The exhibition considers how the potato-driven life of previous generations was run on intensive physical labor, and how automation introduced leisure and luxury to that life. www.instagram.com/asbestos_art_space/p/C4N6Y3JNoCi/?__d=11 Duo
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2023ARTSEMESTR léto 2023 Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design of Prague Prague, Czech Republic Showing my work "The garden at the end of the tunnel" as a part of the art semester 2023 group exhibition as a part of my exchange semester. www.umprum.cz/cs/web/katedry/artsemestr-leto-2023 Group
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2023, the pigeons took the house Brouwersgracht 25 The Hague, Netherlands Self-organized group exhibition at our artist-run space Brouwersgracht 25 together with the collective of The Hague-based artists. Group
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2023As above, so below The Grey Space in The Middle The Hague, Netherlands Group exhibition by the Fool Collective. thegreyspace.net/program/as-below-so-above-19-22-01-2023/ Group
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2022A mouse took my homework, I took the mouse, the pigeons took the house Brouwersgracht 25 The Hague, Netherlands Fist edition of a self-organized group exhibition at our artist-run space Brouwersgracht 25 together with the collective of The Hague-based artists. Group
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2022Concrete Affection Off-site Nikosia, Cyprus Concrete Affection is an offsite art exhibition that comes from a force to emphasize and frame an unexpected abandoned public space. The works presented in this exhibition have a symbiotic relationship with one another; together they respond to the space, creating an experience of order and delicacy existing in chaos and accidents. This show aims to question the inside by going outside, challenging the dynamics of authority and the value of traditional exhibiting locations. The artists involved are sparked from industrial and performative matters. soloshow.online/concreteaffection.html Group
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2022We do/are photography International Photoszene Cologne Cologne, Germany www.photoszene.de/en/discourse/we-do-are-photography/ Group
Projects
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2026
One-bedroom apartment The Hague, Netherlands lyyraitala.com/one-bedroom-apartment A room has a function and a feeling, in square meters. It has stains on the wall and the marks on the floor, solutions, memories. Ventilators, sockets, pipes connecting to the neighbour's house and back. It has folds and crumbles, and circulating air.
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2025
Equine Maintenance The Hague, Netherlands lyyraitala.com/equine-maintenance The video work captures the interaction between horses and the engineered environments designed for their maintenance, exploring the relationship between horses and technology in contemporary equine care. Once vital to labor and agriculture, the horse now finds itself in controlled spaces of leisure and wellness, where machines dictate movement and routine. Set within the sterile environments of equine healthcare, the work reflects on themes of care and control, nature and machine, organic life and mechanized systems. The wellness treatments become both a tool of healing and a symbol of how animal life is shaped by industrial rhythms.
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2024
Recess The Hague, Netherlands lyyraitala.com/recess-1 The video work delves into the dynamics between leisure and labor portraying a fictional corporate space as a stage where both performers and automated machines partake in a synchronized performance. The workers are entering a trance-like state, aking to hibernation, while the tireless machines continue their tasks. The work ‘Recess’ explores the notion of invisible labor and the way we are being seen and observed in the everyday environment where the work takes place. The video presents a clinical, neutral, and recognizable setting where resting workers break the usual behavioral codes of the workplace. By showcasing the space through the perspective of a robot vacuum, the installation makes public the ways labor occupies both our mental and physical spaces, highlighting the automated routines that define how we humans function. The work is embracing boredom and rest while questioning our compulsion to define ourselves through productivity and action.
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2023
Counting stars, shooting sheep The Hague, Netherlands //lyyraitala.com/counting-stars,-shooting-sheep The video work ’Counting stars shooting sheep’ consists of fantasies where innocence and power are shifting back and forth. The work explores the dynamics of girlhood and conventions of femininity by creating scenes where things can spark and playing take over. The work is mixing reality and fantasy in the created stage for the characters, where room is left for improvisation. The childlike imagination and created worlds around are morphing with the unconscious mind and desires, emphasizing the absurdity of domestic roles.
International exchanges/Residencies
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2023Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design of Prague Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design of Prague, Czech Republic Exchange semester in the Studio of Fine Art Photography. www.umprum.cz/en/
Publications
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2024Catalog of Domestic Daydreams Book self-published Lyy Raitala The Hague, Netherlands Self-published
Awards and grants
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2025Project grant Amarte Fonds The Hague, Netherlands
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2025Grant for artistic work Art Promotion Center Finland Finland
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2023Grant for artistic work Oulu Educational Foundation Oulu, Finland Grant for artistic work