3.3.2026 18:00

Mä lupaan, Mä vannon emerges from an inquiry into whiteness as a social structure. The project examines how whiteness operates within space, particularly within institutional contexts, and how it shapes belonging, visibility, and recognition. It asks: how does one become white in Finnish society? Is immigration ever complete, or does it remain an ongoing condition? What forms of transformation, adaptation, or erasure does this process entail?

This work is situated within artistic research through which Saban Ramadani reflects on his own position in Finland-tracing a trajectory from arriving as a refugee to becoming a middle-class subject. Through performance, embodiment, and narrative, the project considers whiteness not as a fixed identity, but as a structure that is learned, negotiated, and imposed.

Saban Ramadani (b. 1991, Kosovo) is an artist based in Helsinki working across performance, acting, video, sound, and writing. His practice engages with embodiment, memory, and the politics of perception.

His current research focuses on the phenomenology of whiteness and its manifestation within social and institutional life.

The performance will take place at@stoahelsinki on Friday 27 February and Saturday 28 February at 17:00. Each performance has a duration of approximately 25 minutes.

Museum of Impossible Forms will host a screening of Ramadani’s video work connected to the project. The screening will be followed by a conversation with the artist, opening space to reflect on the work’s artistic and research dimensions, and on the broader questions it raises around race, migration, and institutional belonging.