1979年出生于芬兰赫尔辛基，是一名现居巴黎的画家。她复杂的图像创作过程结合了观察与推理，作品根植于具象绘画，却拒绝了叙事的纬度。如同微距摄影一般，阿尔夫坦采用紧凑的取景构图，探索绘画与图像创作的共性。阿尔夫坦曾提到：“我绘制图像，而绘画与图像常常模仿彼此。”她的图像仿佛是对现实世界某种碎片化的呈现，探讨了图像创作中诸如色彩、表面、平面、深度、图案、纹理与构图手段等问题，邀请观者去思考绘画的历史、材料性与物质性。
Born in Helsinki, Finland in 1979, she is a Paris-based painter who creates pictures based on a complex process of observation and deduction. Working in figuration but rejecting a narrative dimension, Alftan’s compositions use the tight framing of close-range photography to explore the similarities between painting and image-making.“I paint pictures,”Alftan says, and“painting and picture often imitate each other.”Inviting viewers to consider the history, materiality, and objecthood of painting, Alftan’s vignettes represent a fragmented vision of the real and address pictorial issues such as color, surface, flatness, depth, pattern, texture, and framing devices.
