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Hannaleena Heiska’s new solo exhibition Celestial Question Mark presents the versatile artist’s new, radiantly hued paintings. Her colours derive their intensity both from their juxtapositions and from her way of using the whiteness of the chalk ground as a source of light, producing a kind of inner glow in the painting. Recurring universal shapes such as arcs, twists, and swirls run through her work, combined with colours that glow like bright stars.

Observatories formed a motif in Heiska’s earlier charcoal drawings. Working serially, she has also employed cinematic sci-fi imagery in her …