Tiina

Salmia

I am a postdoctoral researcher specializing in visual culture and human–animal studies. I completed my PhD in Art History at the University of Turku in 2026. In my dissertation, I analysed how non-human and human embodied agencies as well as multispecies interactions and encounters are constituted in photographic self-representations of the early 2000s. 

In my postdoctoral project Multispecies Kirpilä Art Collection, launched in spring 2026, I examine how encounters between humans and non-human animals are represented in the artworks of the Kirpilä Art Collection. I explore what kinds of gazes are directed at non-human animals, how boundaries between species are drawn, and what kinds of negotiations about human–animal–environment relations take place within these works.