A Life of its Own
Exhibited at duo exhibition under the same title, Hakaniemenranta 26–Työhuone, Helsinki (2025)
Collaboration with Juozapas Švelnys
Drawings on paper and fabrics, printed film stills on transparent film, handmade paper and sound installation
A Life of Its Own looks at habits through the subtle yet persistent forces of repetition, routine, and control. It moves within the inherent tension and dual nature of habitual patterns, tracing how the seemingly mundane gestures of everyday life become places we inhabit – temporary, but anchoring, rhythmic, but porous. Drawings, photographs, objects, and sound hint at how habits inscribe themselves into us, into our environment and into time, each drop folding into the inevitable stream of who we are becoming, the traces we are leaving. Memory, making and place interweave and reflect on the balance between holding on and letting go, between seeking and adapting. The exhibition creates the state of seeing through, where life phases, much like movement within movement, slip from their stillness and become transparent layers in an ever-changing landscape.
Images by Hakaniemenranta 26–Työhuone