Gabriella Presnal: Trajectories

Trajectories explores weaving as queering spatiality. The praxis takes broken cabling and uses self-taught basket weaving techniques to transform a two-dimensional landscape into three-dimensional places. 

Deleuze and Guattari refer to weaving as the most striated – or controlled/measured – form of “nomad art” as there is no space to aerate within the confines of a tightly woven square. As described in A Thousand Plateaus (1980), nomad art applies the characteristics of land and space to textile formats. 

The sculptures aim to reclaim what is described as a striated and transform it into something smooth or nomadic where it can be permeated, creating cracks where spatial tensions emerge. The materials address a feeling of artificiality in relation to cultural identity as well as an interdependence between digital places, cultural heritage, queerness, and community. 

Trajectories refers to nomadic trajectories described by Delueze and Guattari where vectors, such as hurricanes, travel across striated or smooth planes. The works are then observing blurred lines between striated and smooth spatialities, the cracks within them, as well as the vectors that travel through them. 

MUU Window is a new space for contemporary art in Jätkäsaari, Helsinki, located at street level in the new student housing complex run by the Varsinaissuomalainen osakunta Student Housing Foundation. The building was inaugurated in September 2024, and MUU’s exhibition programme begun in October.

The exhibition opening will take place on
Thursday 4.6.2026 from 17.00 to 18.00
at the window exhibition space on the corner of
Välimerenkatu and Messitytönkuja streets.
 

MUU Ikkuna

4.6.-30.8.2026

Open 24h

Free admission