Earthed and waterborne (Petrichor)

HAA Gallery
Suomenlinna, Helsinki, Finland
August 27th – September 19th 2026

Maastatullut ja veteensyntynyt (Petrichor)

a promise dissolves into the sea, her tongue kisses hers, and then another, and finally herself, forgetting herself, merging with herself

they speak to me until a butterfly lands on my knee, until the sun burns a mark into the ground, until you vanish thousands of kilometers away, until you come to meet me as a burnt image underwater

faceless, drawn upon your hand, you touch the other hand

my face is once again beneath the water mist, for I once touched that hand, drew over the drawings, but not over this new one

until I-am-no-more, in the same way that you-are-no-more

The exhibition Earthed and waterborne (Petrichor) is rooted in the experience of a place where a twin flame burns. The twin flame (or mirror self) is a myth based on a single soul divided into two separate bodies. According to the original myth, humans were made of a single body with two heads, four arms, and four legs, until Zeus split them in two; thereafter, each half wandered the earth in search of its missing counterpart. 

When twin flames meet, they see themselves in each other. Like a mirror image that initially appears as a perfect, missing part of the self.  As they burn side by side, the twin flames reveal hidden facets of each other. Twin flames cannot ever truly unite, for their true essence keeps them forever separate, in two different worlds: water and air. After the encounter, their bodies gradually transform into other elements—water, stone, and plants—eventually forming icons.

The exhibition consists of mixed-media photographic sculptures in which the act of seeing a landscape—and the physical and emotional experience of a place—transforms into a new location, a kind of reverie or its very opposite. The sensory nature of the works carries an emotional charge that leads deep into emotional memories and desire. The photographic prints within the works serve as a gateway where everyday reality dissolves and a subconscious nightmare takes shape.