In Rosenström’s new exhibition, the viewer comes face to face with dark mirrors, social facades, and disruptive voices.

Gradually, then suddenly explores the interplay between human voices, architecture, and technology. The exhibition stands on its own but also forms a companion piece to Rosenström’s installation featured on Vallisaari Island as part of Helsinki Biennial.

Filling the front of the gallery is Broken Chord, a sound installation of semi-reflective glass panels and human voices. The glass panels conduct sound waves by means of small transducer speakers attached to their surfaces. 

Rosenström is intrigued by the way that sound is a physical phenomenon yet possesses the ability to transcend physical boundaries. 

Broken Chord explores how words produced by human vocal cords migrate across surfaces from within one body into another, and how matter and space are shaped by voices around people. 

The industrial glass used in the installation invokes the many visible and invisible social structures that contain, include or exclude people, while at the same time reflecting back the image of themselves.


Helsinki Contemporary

6.-29.6.2025

Wed-Fri 12.00-18.00

Sat-Sun 12.00-16.00

Free entry