Janne Ahola (b. 1984, Helsinki, Finland) is a designer and video artist living and working in Pisa, Italy. He studied Multimedia Design at NoMA in Kolding, Denmark (grad. 2010).Over the past decade, Ahola has worked extensively in digital art, producing numerous works relying on projection mapping techniques. His projects have been presented across a wide spectrum of contexts, from design to art—and exhibited internationally throughout Europe, as well as in Japan, Africa and United States.Outside of his artistic practice, he works professionally as a video designer with Sun Effects, a Helsinki–Tokyo-based design company, and is also the artist behind Matlock Visuals, his VJ project focused on live visuals.

Arashiyama looks at how ecosystems hold themselves together, and how imitation is often a basic survival tactic.The work shapes itself by taking cues from parasitism and mimicry allowing elements from different sources contained in a framed, almost cage-like structure that stages an artificial micro-environment. In this ecosystem the parts sit close enough to hint at symbiosis, but still feel slightly sealed off.Conceptually, the piece draws from the Arashiyama Bamboo Grove in Kyoto, Japan, where repetition and density shape how you move through the space. The viewer’s attention is pulled by patterns rather than a single focal point. Arashyama translates that logic into an installation built on layering: in the process, in the moving image and in the physical structure.