Join us for an artist talk with Tuomas A. Laitinen and curator Ilari Laamanen on Saturday October 31 at 2 pm at the gallery. The discussion will be in Finnish. No preregistration needed.
In the talk, Tuomas A. Laitinen and Ilari Laamanen will discuss Laitinen's artistic thinking and process with a special focus on Tuomas A. Laitinen and Kosen Ohtsubo's joint exhibition Mitate 見立て, on view at Helsinki Contemporary until November 22.
Tuomas A. Laitinen is an artist working with moving images, sound, and glass. His practice composes installations and situations that inquire into the interconnectedness of language and the body across continuously morphing environments. His recent works employ glass as both vessel and threshold, a material that mediates proximity, containment, and transmission, while ultrasonic frequencies are emitted in space as spectral agents operating at the limits of perception. Drawing from heterogeneous mythologies and embodied forms of knowledge, Laitinen creates hallucinatory registers in which perception is continually displaced and reorganized through nonlinear experience.
Ilari Laamanen is a Curator of Exhibitions at Malva, Museum of Visual Arts in Lahti, Finland. Through his interdisciplinary projects he explores communication and body-mind relation in a technologically driven world. His most recent curatorial work at Malva includes the group exhibitions Strange Attraction (2025) and Transformations (2025). Earlier curatorial work includes Trance, the main exhibition of Tallinn Photomonth Contemporary Art Biennial (2023) and Alienation, the ninth Momentum Biennial in Moss, Norway (2017).
