Lovely to hear from you, and thank you again for the other day!
Noora invited Mari to Harakka Island as a guest. The contours of their joint exhibition take shape from a coincidental exchange of letters and time spent on the island.
When we listen, what comes closer?
Pieces of wood drift into the space, with sound and moving-image elements from different times, and found textiles shaped by the room itself. Over the course of the exhibition, traces also emerge from the correspondence and from learning crafts together.
The exhibition ponders upon bodies that flow through time, leaky frameworks, and sites of reassembly.
Isän syli // Father’s embrace | 2026 | Mari Nurmenniemi
Site-specific installation: Wood gathered from the shores of Harakka and the skirts of the Artists House, re-purposed fabrics, polyester yarn
Tutkimuksia: Huima 1v 9.8.2025, Noora Harakan saarella 10.8.2025 | Noora Sandgren
Site-specific projection 140 x 245cm:
Developing narrow-gauge films using nettles collected on the island, fumbling in the dark within this Kasematti space. Mari sewed the projection fabric.
Foragings: Noora, Ulva Intestinalis, slippery rock crevices, Harakka 15.9.2026 | 2026 | Mari Nurmenniemi, Noora Sandgren
Single-channel video, 0:30, loop
Granny’s Eyries cactuses and Bishop’s flowers: “There were so many cows that how could one have had time to hold and embrace their children” | 2026 | Mari Nurmenniemi
Single-channel video, 3:05, loop
Sharings | 2026 | Mari Nurmenniemi, Noora Sandgren
Correspondence and hand-embroidered textile work emerging over the course of the exhibition: Re-purposed wool and polyester fabrics, cotton and viscose threads dyed with avocado and kelp
Sunbathing | 2026 | Mari Nurmenniemi
Audio, 4:20, loop. Sound design: Elmeri Ström (made using Mari Nurmenniemi’s field recordings as the base)
Photos: Kastehelmi Korpijaakko