Remi Vesala – showroom 3: rules of reality
Showroom 3: Rules of Reality is a curated exhibition by Remi Vesala, combining moving image works with performances and spatial interventions. Now in its third iteration, the showroom focuses in particular on the tensions between contemporary technology and physicality and their relationship to storytelling, allegorical and spatial interstices, and stage-like environments in which different ways of being are presented and demanded.
Video works will be shown by Matti Harju, Sini Hentu, Cassie Augusta Jørgensen, Randa Marouf, Jaakko Pietiläinen, P Staff, and Deborah Stratman, among others.
During the evening , Teemu Ruissalo will present work Scenario II for Maija, Selma, Alex, Niko, Sölvi, Aapo, and Teemu (2026), and we will experience Taneli Leonora Viljanen's Sumuhorisontti(Fog Horizon), a lecture performance about bodies, structures, strangeness, presence, and the invisible that is coming. It is woven together from textual material sourced from the following publications: Queerneobarokki, Vyöhyke, Pimeä kuu, and Glitterneste.
SYNOPSIS
EL CENTRO, 2021
Matti Harju
7 min 14 s
Drain to, 2025
Sini Henttu
9 min
Stand-by Office, 2017
Randa Maroufi
13 min 20 s
Slit Your Click, 2023
Cassie Augusta Jørgensen
14 min 44 s
Shrouds have no pockets, 2020
Jaakko Pietiläinen
29 min 40 s
HEVN, 2022
P Staff
5 min
Hacked Circuit, 2014
Deborah Stratman
15 min 5 s
Bio
Remi Vesala is a curator who working in the fields of visual art, performance, and film. His thinking is shaped by perspectives opened by trans philosophy as well as dialogical relationship with artists. Vesala is the founder of the curator-led art space Lou and was responsible for its programming in 2024-2025.
Read the interview with Remi Vesala, Matti Harju, and Sini Hentu.
Poster: Remi Vesala. Image of artwork: Sini Henttu, Meditation, 2025.
