Hertta Kiiski & Janne Punkari ANDRA VÅNINGEN / The Second Floor

Fotocentrum Raseborg

18 September – 31 October 2025

On the second floor, there are objects: a sunset suitcase, a sleeping rose, a lavender column cabinet, a fries-sun tray, a radiator-rose breadbox, a spider bathtub, a tube-column cart, handshaking pumpkins, and others. All of these gathered in the same room. The room resembles a home, but it is not a home.

The objects behave like creatures; they have their own will. Their scales are changeable. They seem to have a purpose, but the purpose remains unclear. They stand silently and wait. Visitors may decide what they want. The visitor may also choose not to decide.

ANDRA VÅNINGEN is a site-specific exhibition comprising a new body of work created especially for Fotocentrum Raseborg. Photographs, arrangements, and objects come together to inhabit the gallery space as a kind of home. The works are made from wood, marble, cardboard, metal, plastic, lavender, bread, and their replicas. These replicas do not simply mirror the originals but reveal new layers – much like photographs themselves. The video installation Nox Rosae, structured at 17 minutes, the average duration of a REM sleep cycle, resists conventional narrative, offering instead a drifting, affective experience that mimics the fluidity and disorientation of dreaming.

Visual artists Hertta Kiiski and Janne Punkari work in the fertile space between photography, video, objects, textiles, and spatial installation. Their shared practice evolves through sensitivity to material impulses, continuous merging, intuition, and presence in the moment. Everyday materials drift away from their familiar meanings, shedding their functional purposes to open new narratives where the banal, the cosmic, and the absurd intertwine.

Kiiski’s works have been widely exhibited in Finland and internationally across museums, galleries, and festivals. Punkari is currently completing his Master’s studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki. ANDRA VÅNINGEN marks the duo’s sixth collaborative exhibition. In 2025, their joint works were also presented at the Icelandic Photo Festival in Reykjavík and at NOON Projects in Los Angeles.