Born in 1979 in Helsinki (Finland), she lives and works in Paris.
Henni Alftan is an artist who paints like a photographer, favoring the framing of a fragment or a detail, rather than overall views liking to decenter the subject, alternating blur and sharpness. The flat, non-narrative depiction of a banal, all-too-perfect world plunges the viewer into a sense of the uncanny. In her figurative paintings, her gaze focuses on bringing out the simplified forms of banal objects, domestic places or people of familiar appearance, all coming from her imagination. Everything is not said, shown, given, and the artist seeks to actively involve the viewer in what there is to see in and beyond the painting.
Henni Alftan has chosen to move in France at 18 years old. Graduated from the Beaux-Arts of Paris and the Villa Arson schools of art, Henni Alftan is the subject of solo exhibitions in galleries in Helsinki, New York, London and Clermont-Ferrand. Her work has also been exhibited in group shows at the Aïshti Foundation (Beirut), ICA (Miami), LACMA (Los Angeles), FRAC Limousin (France) and in numerous museums and foundations in Finland.
