"The common defining feature in Mäkipää‘s works is a laconic notion of the physical order of reality, referring to the structural elements that shape our lives. They deal with the infrastructure we take for granted, the fabric that makes the world go around – trivia such as buses creeping from one stop to the next, mechanical water closets propelling your faeces to places unknown, trucks delivering your favourite buns to the bakery around the corner … Tea Mäkipää is no doubt fascinated by, if not obsessed with, these all-pervading yet strangely invisible structures of everyday life – structures we fail to notice until they become dysfunctional."
"Hard Talk. Critical Reflections on the Work of Tea Mäkipää" by Mika Hannula
