all that remains

April 2025
Galleria Oksasenkatu11

Artists:
Sana Hosseini
Celeste Sanja Smareglia
Vytautas Bikauskas and Bailey Polkinghorne (SPORK Sound kitchen)
Shiva Khademi

Curator:
Mana Tashakorinia

{All That Remains} begins with the idea that ceremonies always leave behind remains, remnants, and residues;

An archive of {sounds echoing between walls and trees, confetti, and dishes to be washed.}

Though the archive is not identical to forms of remembrance or history, it manifests itself in the form of traces. It holds the potential to fragment and destabilize both remembrance as recorded and history as written, challenging their sufficiency as the final account of what has come to pass. *

The archiver holds power and authority through the preservation and interpretation of history, stories, and rituals. Though, the curation of these five ceremonies tries to put together those moments of fracture in the creation of archives; it’s a ceremony of {nightly diggers}.

We tend to preserve moments by capturing sounds, images, and videos; sticky pages of photo albums, and pictures wrapped in plastic covers to last longer. How idealistic of us to put our trust in those ephemeral entities. Photos get lost or torn apart, videos corrupt, and compatible devices eventually become untranslatable. If we’re lucky enough to find fragments, we gaze at them through eyes that have already seen the future.

Here we grab the leftovers of the ceremonies and caw together by a long table to re-imagine and re-member.

* Merewether, Charles, ed. 2006. The Archive. London, Cambridge, MA: Whitechapel; MIT Press.

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