AUTOMATIA
Pitted Dates, Helsinki, Finland 11.9.–25.10.2026Works by Ilmari Gryta, Juhana Moisander, Jaakko Pallasvuo, Ida Tomminen, Henna Vainio, Xiao Zhiyu
If you run into a certain person one day, the chance of seeing them again next day increase 70%.A friend told me this week, when we walk past a catholic church, that she once had to go & confess her sins and she didn't have any, so she made some up and hoped to "pass" the sacrament.
When platforms shape perception, people invent new personal problems but experience them as inherent.
Our nervous system tries the best to adapt to intensify feedback loops and new media forms.I have highly attuned mirror neurons but they are not advantageous, I have noticed. It takes a lot of concentration not to be consumed by other people's emotional landscape and respond to every situation in objective/true way. It takes courage to let energy flow. Dressing up in a suit makes it easy to keep impersonal (input/outout).
Sound of rain, stone cold to touch, sunlight streaming to the trees, movement, acceptance. Karma is not transcendent but what happens when same patterns are repeated. Technically. We are beyond survival
a commissioned poem by Iida Sofia Hirvonen
514 g, 2026, Oil on linen, heavy pigments, 19 x 14 cm
374 g, 2026, Oil on linen, heavy pigments, 23 x 15 cm
516 g, 2023, Oil on linen, heavy pigments, 22 x 14 cm
Photo credits: Sakari Tervo