5. – 28.9.2025

The centrepiece of Antti Laitinen and Hanna Saarikoski‘s video piece Remains is a small stone. It is positioned in the centre of a table, flanked by two blocks of ice, each measuring 10 x 20 cm. Laitinen and Saarikoski are seated on opposite sides of the table. Their active role in the piece is emphasised by a featureless grey background.

Throughout the 16-minute duration of the work, the artists make almost no contact with each other. With great concentration, they both feel the shape and dimensions of the stone with their hands, and transfer these measurements onto the block of ice before them. There is something primordial in the act of using the hand as a measure. It sets both the actor and the viewer adrift in a different layer of time that hovers invisibly all around us. The soft touch and small back-and-forth movement of the hand melt the ice, which slowly begins to take on the shape of the stone.