2.4.-1.5.2026
Pekka Järvilehto - Lucemondo II
In nature, light often appears where it is the least: in the faint glow of fireflies, in drifting movements, or in sudden flashes beneath the surface of the sea. These moments can easily go unnoticed when the surroundings are too bright. Light is often seen as something positive, but is also something that reveals. What happens when there is too much of it? Do we begin to see more - or less? In this work, discarded materials take on a different presence. What appears as waste in bright light begins to glow and transform in the dark. The eye adjusts, and with it, our sense of beauty shifts. Is beauty found in what light reveals - or in what it leaves in shadow?
Pekka Järvilehto (b.1961) is a self-taught light artist working at the intersection of art, technology and perception. With a background in medical engineering and over three decades of experience in international environmental work, his practice is shaped by both scientific curiosity and material awareness. His works explore how light reveals, transforms and sometimes conceals. Combining lasers, electronics, recycled materials, and projection-based techniques, Järvilehto creates shifting environments where the familiar can appear altered - and where seeing becomes an act of adjustment.
Lasse Vairio: Sea Objects
Sea Objects brings the underwater world to the fore. Objects that once disappeared in the sea have returned to the surface to repeat what they heard. Sometimes people have dreamed of settlements at the bottom of the sea. Often the motivation has been greed and the pursuit of profit. We often ignore the wishes of the sea. After all, we enjoyed the beauty of the sea and the sweet waves. When the sea returns to reclaim the land, what will it tell us? Are our ears filled with the harmonies and praises of the depths? Or are our own moaning repeated there? However, I want to learn to listen to the sounds of the sea allready today. Also those in which human is present.
Lasse Vairio's (b.1966) works move between the landscape of the everyday and the fantastical. Time lost to the camera and the audio recorder can be rediscovered, but it has changed its form along the way. Lasse Vairio lives and works in Helsinki. He graduated from the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts in 2023 with a Master of Fine Arts degree in Time and Space Art.