Annabel Kajetski is a research-based Finnish visual artist (MFA) working with interactive video installations, immersive technologies, and unconventional robotics.

Before becoming an artist, Kajetski worked in healthcare as an occupational therapist. Although this experience belongs to her past, it continues to shape her artistic practice. Her work investigates how emerging technologies are redefining dignity and human rights, particularly within healthcare. At its core, her practice explores how human value is defined and measured across different contexts.

As healthcare budgets shrink in Nordic countries, opportunities for empathy and human connection in care are diminishing—often replaced by technologies such as empathetic robots in elder care. This shift is examined in her work Confuss.

Another piece in her ongoing series on healthcare, Interview with Pepper, features an interview with Finland’s first AI healthcare robot, which assists patients in medical centers, replacing direct human interaction. The robot’s cameras track patients’ emotions, raising questions about data privacy and ethical implications. These concerns also inform her broader series on surveillance, including Life Digitalized and EchoChamber, which investigate the expanding web of surveillance and the commodification of data in contemporary society.

Kajetski is currently developing both of these series further.

Her work has been exhibited in Finland and internationally, featured in Finland’s largest newspaper, and supported by national art grants. She is also a co-founder of the artist-led gallery Asbestos Art Space in Helsinki.

CONTACT:

e-mail: annabel.kajetski@gmail.com

Instagram: @annabelkajetski