5.12.2025—2.1.2026

Baran Caginli’s exhibition Lost and Found, explores the intersections of materiality and memory through a series of edible bread sculptures that trace the stories of dissected and lost monuments such as from Estonia, Lithuania, Romania, and Moldova. Using temporary materials like bread to reflect on socio-political and cultural histories, the project aims to delve into instances of civil political action involving the subversion of political posture through the theft of small parts, such as fingers or hands. During the exhibition, visitors are invited to participate in a ceremonial act by consuming these reproduced, edible fragments, choosing to eat, share, or keep them like relics.

Baran Caginli (b. Istanbul) lives and works in Helsinki and holds a Master’s degree from the Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki, Sculpture Department. His work underlines global concerns by highlighting the problematics and contradictions of power, governmental conflicts, the military-industrial complex, systematic repression, and discrimination. Subjects and people in his works are often witnesses to forced migration, disappearances, or loss. Through diverse media, including photography, sculpture, installation, and archival material, Caginli integrates layers of camouflage or concealment, re-constituting and framing them in new contexts by adding subtle messages and gestures.

The exhibition is located in the downstairs space of Gallery Oksasenkatu 11.