WHAT'S ON
That’s why we’ve joined forces together with filmmaker Marek Płuciennik and light designer Severi Haapala to light up Gallery Yö in Helsinki. For two full weeks, we’ll be presenting three installations: Tempus Lux and Draw a/the Line—works where light, film and kinetic art meet together.
This project has also been invited to be part of this year’s Lux Helsinki event, which you all know it very well. Go and follow the program of the festival. You will find us on their map.
You’re warmly invited to the opening night
Tuesday, January 6th 2026, 17:00–22:00
Natlia Kozieł-Kalliomäki & Marek Pluciennik (PL / CA) – Tempus Lux
Tempus Lux, an analogue film and light installation by Natlia Kozieł-Kalliomäki and Marek Pluciennik, pays homage to the two most vital components of cinema: light and film. It explores a simple, profound truth—that without light, film remains a dormant medium. By accentuating the role of light (LUX), the installation illuminates its primary function, inviting us to re-discover the very magic of the moving image.
Natalia Kozieł-Kalliomäki
Natalia Kozieł-Kalliomäki is a Polish-original, Finland-based visual artists exploring the substance of print through analog optical machinery and alchemy of film processes. She aims to uncover how traditional film projecting can be reinvented to tell layered stories within images, where simple illusions becomes enigmatic and impossible gets present. Working with 16mm film, light installations and expanded-cinema performances, she examines the sensation of synaesthesia – the neurological crossovers like feeling the color, or seeing the sound.
Marek Pluciennik
Marek Pluciennik is a Polish/Canadian filmmaker and cinema artist based in Helsinki. His work focuses on the material and ephemeral nature of the film medium. In his latest works, he interfaces traditional projectors with digital micro-controllers as he explores visual motion perception in the frame-based medium. The works are a meditative study at the extreme boundaries of apparent movement. Pluciennik refers to it as aliminal flicker, where the viewers’ motion perception is tested by a “meltdown” of classic motion perception; a similar phenomenon to liminal space, where an empty space can feel unsettling and familiar at the same time.
Severi Haapala (FI) – Draw a/the line
Draw a/the line -art piece by Severi Haapala explores the notion of transformation over time. The kinetic line drawn by the light is never exactly the same — it is in constant transformation. The line is guided from above by thin threads that reshape its form. History is often depicted as a straight line where events follow one another; however, history is sometimes rewritten or shaped to appear differently, and it also matters whose history is being examined. By changing the article, we can turn the line into a boundary — either a personal one or one that concerns broader communities. Like history, these boundaries are also in constant flux.
Severi Haapala
Severi Haapala, worked as a light, sound and video designer for dance, theatre, events and exhibitions. In addition to traditional performance spaces, he has also become familiar with non-electric drying barns, stone churches and lakes. He has always been fascinated by the relationship of the works to the spaces where they are at any given time. In his artistic designs, he often used elements that transforms in real time.