Emotional archaelogy
Maa Kuu is a visual artist creating emotionally charged work from personal exile experience.
He is a Helsinki-based artist working at the intersection of technology, myth, and digital emotion. He describes himself as a “online explorer and artist of the in-between”—someone who broadcasts feeling through machine-made beauty.
Originally from the tech world, Maa Kuu spent years inside the logic of code before drifting toward image, ritual, and story. His art isn’t fixed—it arrives in pulses, like weather or memory.
In the current exhibition, Saltlight, Maa Kuu turns the gaze inward — close enough to feel the warmth of skin, the pulse beneath it, the salt of lived moments. These portraits are not of heroes, but of those who have walked through heat, shadow, and longing without the promise of return. Saltlight is an atlas of human surfaces that hint at the storms inside.
Maa Kuu uses a range of tools—especially AI, which he approaches like a soft synth: cold and coded, yet capable of warmth when tuned just right.
The name Maa Kuu—Finnish for “Earth Moon”—comes from his Second Life avatar, created in 2006 during that brief era when everyone was online becoming someone else. After a 12-year absence, he returned in 2019. He's been transmitting ever since.