For over fifteen years, Sandra Vaka has created works that examine the conditions of living in a world saturated with products and technology. Her serial works highlight desire, consumption, and pleasure—hallmarks of contemporary consumer society and its environmental impact. Vaka’s practice blends humour and seriousness in a deliberately dual approach. She investigates how technology, consumption, desire, pleasure, and shame shape both daily life and the body. Familiar objects—such as towels, plastic straws, and computer screens—are transformed and imbued with new meaning in the space between the sensual and the conceptual. Her interdisciplinary practice spans sculpture, installation, photography, collage, and painting. Using a painterly approach to photography, she combines physical water with digital screens, or as photograms.

Sandra Vaka (b. 1980, Stavanger) studied at the Art School in Rogaland, holds a BA from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHIO), and an MA from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Vaka has exhibited widely in Norway and internationally, and her works are part of numerous private and public collections. She is currently working on outdoor public art projects for the City of Oslo, Lervigskvartalet in Stavanger, & Stavanger Secession.