Maria Koskivirta: The Universe Is a Machine
Aug 7 – 30, 2026
Ruoholahdenranta 3 a, 00180 Helsinki
Maria Koskivirta’s new movie to watch for free at the Forum Box gallery.
The Universe Is a Machine explores the idea of reality as mechanical, automatic and perhaps indifferent; it challenges the idea that the universe is alive, magical or spiritually meaningful, but rather cold and predetermined – like a machine running without emotion or meaning.
The film consists of a series of slowly evolving, fragmented visual sequences. Its pacing is deliberately measured and lacks narrative resolution, maintaining a continuous but non-linear flow.
The film builds itself out of residues: liminal architectural voids, torn skin under macro gaze, a beam of light scanning, searching, failing to land. Reflecting on dissemination of the body and space as well as noting this idea of disembodiment, the shots collected are intended to take apart elements; to reveal loss – to shed light on disappearance.
The language of the film hovers between prayer, warning and resignation – fragments drawn from personal loss and collective tragedy. Ultimately, the text illuminates the loss of autonomy, as the speech accepts mechanical inevitability and offers suicide as the final act of existential freedom; understanding violence not as an event, but as a structure.
The Universe Is a Machine, 2025
8 min 25 s
Forum Box
7.-30.8.2026
Tue-Sun 12.00-17.00
Free entry
