Anu Halmesmaa and Ella Tahkolahti

Anu Halmesmaa: The Formula of Immortality (Hall 1) and Ella Tahkolahti: Mother's Fabrics (Hall 2)

Anu Halmesmaa's exhibition addresses the acceptance of death and presents fantasies of immortality through a fairytale-like and abundant aesthetic. At the core of her work are spatial sculptural installations that explore the relationship between humans and nature, corporeality, and the tension between mortality and immortality.

In these works, immortality is not a goal or solution, but a continuous movement - a tentative attempt to understand and accept the limits of human life. The construction of illusion serves as a way to approach what cannot be fully encountered: death, disappearance, and cycles larger than the self.

Ella Tahkolahti's exhibition addresses dementia, material inheritance, and the mother-daughter relationship.

Central to the exhibition are large-scale textile works that form part of a spatial whole. The body of work examines unclear loss - a space where a loved one remains present but transforms through dementia. The exhibition investigates the blurring of memories, reality, and identity, along with the prolonged grieving process connected to this.

Tahkolahti presents a performative work in the exhibition called The Umbilical Cord. The performance, of undefined duration, takes place on weekends during the exhibition's opening hours.

HAA Galleria, Suomenlinna

29.5.-28.6.2026

Free admission