Mirjam Yeboah: Emellan

Emellan is an immersive textile installation in which the body manifests as space, memory and shelter.

Composed of textile sculptures and a soundscape, the exhibition invites visitors to step into a den-like space where personal memories, cultural heritage and embodied experiences intertwine.

The work explores Afro-Finnish and Fante–Fenno-Swedish identity from an intersectional perspective. The suspended textile sculptures reflect complex ways of navigating the surrounding world and its expectations. The participatory elements of the exhibition invite visitors to experience the work with their whole bodies.

Emellan creates a space where time is nonlinear and where connections to ancestors, community and personal memories exist simultaneously. The exhibition explores the layered nature of identity through sensory impressions, care and shared experiences. It asks what kinds of spaces we can create when diversity is not an exception, but a starting point.

During the exhibition, three participatory workshops will be held in the installation space. Guided by the artist, participants can leave their own marks on the work.

A guided tour of the exhibition will be held in Finnish Sign Language on Saturday October 10, 2026, from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m.

Mirjam Yeboah is a Finnish-Ghanaian textile artist specialising in costume design and pedagogy. Their art often draws on the intersections of their own identities, as well as a decolonial approach. For them, textile is not only a medium, but a narrative element in itself – powerful and soft. That is why Mirjam is particularly interested in the relationship between body, mind and material.