Iiu Susiraja

Reconfiguring the Portrait, edited by Abraham Gell and Tomáš Jirsa, is freshly out from Edinburgh University Press. It includes my co-authored chapter with Kaisu Hynnä-Granberg, titled Iiu Susiraja: self-shooting as playful practice. Focusing on the Instagram presence of the Finnish artist Iiu Susiraja in particular, our chapter explores the playful aspects of her work while also engaging in relations between self-portraits and selfies, body aesthetics, and the critical edge of ambiguity. The piece was a joy to write and we hope it does some justice to the general mood of Susiraja’s art.