UNMAPPED FREQUENCIES
May, 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.
DRIFT REMAINS
April, 2026
SAMPO AATOS - SHOUT-OUT FOR COLOR
December 2025
Shout-out for Colour is Sampo Aatos’s audio-reactive light installation, in which sound influences the lighting ambience of the space.
In his works, Sampo Aatos explores human behavior and emotions through video, light, and sculptural practices. Aatos creates experiential situations through which he examines space and time, challenging the viewer’s perception. In his works, performativity either emerges through the viewer or is brought forward by the artist himself. These performative elements merge with sculptural means, allowing the artist to embed site-specific storytelling into his work.
Risto Puurunen - Shadows in the Air
Shadows in the Air is an immersive and participatory 3D shadow theatre installation that takes shape within the gallery space. Using 3D glasses, visitors encounter expanding, animated shadows that respond to movement in real time. The work invites playful interaction through shadow play and subtle sound improvisation on piano strings.
The installation emerges from a slow, hands-on process of construction and experimentation with light, projection, and shadow. Its raw, tactile aesthetic draws inspiration from early film experiments and pre-film animation devices such as zoetropes, bridging historical optical play with contemporary spatial experience.
Risto Puurunen is a Finnish self-taught musician and visual artist whose practice spans immersive installations, experimental sound, and invented light-based techniques. He is known for his work with “stereolight,” shadows, and 3D optics, as well as for his long-standing role in the internationally performing group Cleaning Women. He is also a key figure in the Haihatus Art Centre.
Anders Bergman & Suvi Parrilla
- VARGFRÅN: Kurbits
Kurbits was originally created in collaboration with KONE Elevators as a visual work for an elevator descending into the underground depths of the Tytyri Experience Mine. Drawing from Dalecarlian folk art, the kurbits motif appears as a fantastical, twisting plant—an organic symbol of growth, fertility, and the life force of nature, with visual echoes of the tree of life.
The work’s soundscape weaves together incantatory wolf-protection chants and runic song, blending Finnish and Swedish language traditions and exploring transformation between human, child, and wolf. Against the backdrop of contemporary debates on wolf protection and hunting in the Nordic countries, Kurbits engages with the contested identity of the wolf—feared, rejected, sacred, and symbolic—while pointing toward shared cultural ground across borders.
Vargfrån is a multidisciplinary project by Anders Bergman and Suvi Parrilla, bringing contemporary art into dialogue with folk tradition, belief systems, and Nordic wolf politics.
Anders Bergman is a Swedish artist who has lived and worked primarily in Helsinki since 2000. Bergman's art practice is a journey through diverse fields of installation, painting, music, sounds and social environments – in which he investigates energy across a vast array of forms. He conceives of music and other forms of sound as a sort of "floating architecture", and in turn he often thinks of paintings and installations as "frozen music".
Suvi Parrilla is a Helsinki based artist who works as an artist and expert in video graphics and immersive art. She has created numerous immersive video installations for museums and light art events, directed a dome film and has also worked as a video visualist. In addition, she is active as a cultural organizer, curator, and festival and event producer. She has extensive experience in artist-led organizations.
RISTO PUURUNEN
VARGFRÅN
February, 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.