16.-18.6. Maria Rannanheimo: It all starts with listening

Maria Rannanheimo: It all starts with listening

Asbestos Art Space

Opening: Tue 16 June 2026, 5 pm onwards

Open: Wed–Thu 17–18 June 2026, 12–5 pm

Welcome to the opening and to an exhibition of photographic works, as we attune ourselves to the longest days of summer. You are invited to stop by for a moment, linger awhile, move through the space in imaginative ways, speak a few lines, reflect quietly alone or together, propose something, or just simply be.

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One must get to focus

to listen to the light

rippling

subtle signals

even when it’s dark

there are traces everywhere

wavy

breathing

expanding particles,

thoroughly seeing resemblances

the vibrating dimensions

of tentative forms

condensed collective memory

multidimensional subconscious

another kind of logic

a frequency opening

in the sense of time

and through times and species

I want to move through the world

with my receptors open

to remember densely

together

and thoroughly

that we are not separate

we are connected

and connection resides within us

like light and warmth

and neurotransmitters

as temporal condensations of existence

as phases of a continuum

if we remember to listen

we can see

and when we look

we can feel,

reach towards one another

to transmit and to be transmitted

in perpetual permeability

Maria Rannanheimo lives in Helsinki and works primarily with photography and moving image. Intuition and magical-realistic documentary practice are integral to their artistic approach. Their work explores diverse possibilities of being and existence in an era of planetary destruction; overlaps, tensions, and connections that unfold both within fleeting moments and across temporal scales.