Sasha Rotts is a visual artist from Helsinki working in various media, including printmaking, painting, installation, textiles, and performance.
During her residency in Tartu, Rotts worked on a project called Please Recycle, in which she explored the flexibility of Tetra Pak plates. Throughout her three-month residency, she researched the city of Tartu and its nearby outskirts. She was inspired by architectural details, parks, flowers, and elements of her daily routine. She combined Tetra Pak prints with drawing, collage, and watercolour. As part of the exhibition, she also installed a textile piece, which added a playful dimension to the prints.
Please Recycled is the final project of Helsinki-based artist Sasha Rotts, created during her three-month Typa residency in Tartu. Known for her recent explorations in textiles, Rotts returns to her printmaking roots in this exhibition at Rodu Gallery—this time using unconventional materials like Tetra Pak plates.
Her guiding principle, “No border in printmaking,” resonates throughout the show. Blurring lines between mediums and methods, Rotts merges impressions gathered from Tartu with the fantastical creatures that inhabit her textile works. The result is a vivid and layered visual language: collages, gouache, watercolour, fragments of newspaper, and self-portraits all invite the viewer to look closer—and look again.
Sasha’s ‘s residency was supported by the Nordic-Baltic Funding for artist residencies, from the Nordic-Baltic Mobility Programme for Culture.