Niko Luoma’s 'Adaptations' series described by Shao-Lan Hertel:
"Though drawing from various individual solutions provided by previous artists to space-related issues of form and materiality, dimension and light, movement and speed, Luoma’s 'Adaptations' are not to be misunderstood as resulting images of secondary status. They do not aim to represent; their significance lies in the performative condition inherent to their material process of production. Luoma’s inspirational sources⎯ranging from expressionist paintings by Pablo Picasso and gestural sculptures by Willem de Kooning, to the futurist manifesto 'Art of Noises' (1913) by Luigi Russolo⎯serve, moreover, as specific fix points of departure, as parametric filters, or measures, through which Luoma’s works may unfold aspects of rhythm, volumetricity, and directional force. In essence, Luoma’s space-and-light compositions remain self-referential, they point towards the process of their own creation⎯the moment of exposure⎯in medium-reflexive manner."