Sade Kahra is a Sweden-Finnish visual artist and photographer whose work examines how spatial, cultural and psychological contexts shape human experience. Sensitive to light and transformation, photography allows her to experiment, to write, paint and construct with the medium, and to trace what often escapes direct representation. Kahra explores the tensions between lived experience and constructed meaning, seeking to visualise mental landscapes influenced by place, body and memory.
Her practice is interdisciplinary and practice-based, often developed in collaboration with artists, designers, scientists and other professionals across fields. Her work extends photography into installation, publication and sound, combining visual language with conceptual exploration.
In her recent work, Kahra has begun to investigate how death is mediated and reconstructed through digital technologies, examining data as material, authorship beyond life, and how memory, presence and representation are reshaped in a post-digital condition.
Her works have been exhibited in museums, galleries and international venues since the early 1990s, and are held in public collections including the Finnish State Art Deposit Collection, the Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, and the Heino Art Foundation.
Her practice is interdisciplinary and practice-based, often developed in collaboration with artists, designers, scientists and other professionals across fields. Her work extends photography into installation, publication and sound, combining visual language with conceptual exploration.
In her recent work, Kahra has begun to investigate how death is mediated and reconstructed through digital technologies, examining data as material, authorship beyond life, and how memory, presence and representation are reshaped in a post-digital condition.
Her works have been exhibited in museums, galleries and international venues since the early 1990s, and are held in public collections including the Finnish State Art Deposit Collection, the Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, and the Heino Art Foundation.