13.5.-30.5.2026
Dora Dalila Cheffi - FINLANDIA
In FINLANDIA, Cheffi reinterprets Finland’s national hymn by Jean Sibelius, translating it into Tunisian Arabic and performing it in the traditional Mawwal style. This haunting soundscape is paired with a triptych video installation featuring animated shapes and vibrant colors that echo Cheffi’s paintings.
Dora Dalila Cheffi (b. 1990, Helsinki) lives and works between Tunis and Helsinki. Her practice spans painting, video, and installation.
Initially trained in art education, she holds a BA from Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture, where she also studied sculpture and painting. Her work has since developed into a highly personal practice centred on painting and video. Rooted in observation and immediate experience, Cheffi’s works are characterised by vivid colours and fluid, expressive forms.
Azar Saiyar - Helsinki-Tehran
Helsinki-Tehran is a cinematic study on immigration and memory – on the shared verbal and nonverbal knowledge and emotional understanding which travels with displaced people from one generation to another.
Cinematography: Sini Liimatainen, Olli Leppänen, Joonas Kiviharju
Sound: design Sakari Luhtala
Azar Saiyar is Helsinki-based filmmaker and visual artist whose art has been shown at film and media art festivals, galleries, exhibitions, museums and on television. She often uses archive materials and plays with images and words of collective memory to look towards the ways of looking, speaking, remembering and telling stories.
rajatonvimma - for SUMUD
For SUMUD is a video work composed of Palestine solidarity photos taken over the past two years (2023–2025): from demonstrations and events opposing violence against Palestinians and defending their right to freedom, life, and dignity.
Originally digital photographs have been transferred onto analog 35 mm film using an inkjet printer, making the pixel structure and grain visible as part of the work’s aesthetic. The fragmented, discontinuous image flow functions as an abstraction of the solidarity struggle, where individual acts and faces merge into a collective movement.
For SUMUD is dedicated to all those who have participated in Palestine solidarity demonstrations — especially Palestinians who are fighting for human rights, justice, and dignity against genocide, systemic violence, and colonial oppression.
Musiikki: Aleksi Myllykoski & Veli-Matti O Äijälä feat. Nemat Battah - Palestina
rajatonvimma (b. 1975) is a Helsinki-based VJ and video artist, cultural heritage professional, photographer, and activist. Working across museal practices, live visual art, and political engagement, their work explores how images and visual culture circulate, persist, and intervene in contemporary struggles.
XS - Cut Off II
Cut Off is inspired by the absence of connection and communication between Iran and the rest of the world during the Mahsa Amini protests and the ongoing civil unrest that began in September 2022. Constructed from field recordings gathered in Berlin during the protests, the work also incorporates personal phone calls and voice messages from Iran, alongside fragments of news broadcasts and protest slogans.
Alongside personal recordings and broadcasts, the work captures moments of emotional dislocation, the surreal overlap between distant violence and ordinary life.
As protests and war continued to shape the region during 2025 and 2026, Cut Off II emerged as a continuation of the project in 2026.