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Riikka Kupsala graduated as Bachelor of Fine Arts from TUAS Arts Academy in 2017. She works conceptually in time and space arts. Kupsala’s artistic expression is based on moving images, and sculpturing and textile designing methods. She also utilizes data and elements from activism, participatory arts, and performance arts in her work. Kupsala explores consumerism and its social and ecological sustainability through personal point of view. In 2023 she had a solo exhibition on the ecological and social sustainability of apparel. The exhibition was composed of parts created with mixed methods and materials. Textile- and video-based pieces convey information on garments, their manufacturing processes, acquisition, use, and disposal. Now Kupsala is working on her main topic – the sustainability of consumerism – further in the context of clothing and food industry.