5.2.–4.5.2026

Time Matter/s is a letterpress installation that explores and seeks to understand time as experienced by disabled people. The artwork invites the viewer to take a moment, slow down and reflect on their own sense of time.

Crip time refers to the different ways disabled, including neurodivergent, folks use and experience time. It reconsiders normative temporalities and recognises that individuals move through the world at different paces and in unique ways.

Crip time centres flexibility over rigid schedules and invites us to examine time as something felt, not only as something measured. Through the lens of crip time, we can sense time as a fluid, generative force shaping the act of making and not only as a linear constraint.

Time Matter/s connects quotations from disability and neurodiversity discourse, Sjöholm’s own observations during the creative process in the letterpress studio, and common English idioms about time. “The artwork serves as a visual dialogue between these strands of thought and experience and forms an integral part of discovering my own temporal orientation”, Sjöholm adds.

The installation, exhibited in a version adapted to the space of Luonnos-ikkuna, moves gently to the surrounding airflow. The calm, soft motion offers the viewer a moment of stillness to reflect on how they perceive and feel time.

“During, and especially after this project, I have noticed a shift in my own thinking. Inspired by the feminist disability scholar Alison Kafer, my interest has changed from trying to understand what crip time is to focusing on what crip time does for me. I am intrigued to unravel what happens when I leave enforced, normative timeframes behind and use my crip temporality as the source of release and emancipation that it can be when embraced”, Sjöholm concludes.

“Crip time is … a space that offers new kinds of connections and presence that are fundamental to imagining a new world into being”
–Ellen Samuels & Elizabeth Freeman (2021)

Linnéa Sjöholm is a visual artist and designer based in Helsinki. In her artistic practice, she focuses on letterpress printing and expresses herself primarily through text, words, and letters. Temporality is a recurring theme in her work.

The installation Time Matter/s is adapted to the display space. The original artwork was exhibited at Aalto ARTS Grad Show 2025, Espoo, Finland, and can be viewed at linneasjoholm.com/timematters