14.3.–26.4.2026

Warm welcome to the opening on Friday 13. March 18:00 – 21:00

What a mess! The ears have crawled out of the gallery. Perhaps they could not bear to listen to the ever-echoing jargon of freelancers, artists, curators, and gallery visitors for one minute more. Inside the gallery, lighting oscillates like days between work and rest. Two lampposts are carrying their straw fluorescent tubes coated with meagre provisions.

Outside, the ears have taken on a new function. They are listening for the outcome of a social experiment; will they be allowed to remain hanging out for a month at the station in the suburb?

Matti Sumari works in a defunct ketchup factory on the outskirts of Malmö, a post-industrial landscape where materials are sourced from a landfill just below the studio. The materials gathered are most often, in their prior functions, already involuntary social sculptures. Sumari gathers, alters and reinforces their purpose through homemade versions of industrial processes. Found aluminium is cast into sculptures of everyday supplies, placed in an electrified acid bath and boiled in a vat, which have dyed them red and green. This resource-conscious refinement process recurs in multiple forms associated with Sumari’s practice: the fermented cucumber, the cabbage shredded into sauerkraut, the pretzel boiled in lye–somewhat dull, everyday symbols that reach beyond the present.

excerpt from text by Sophia Persson