Petri Eskelinen (b. 1975) works widely within the field of sculpture.

The exhibition features electromechanical sculptures, mechanical time-lapse videos with actual plants, and a large dark installation of quantum space, which seeks, as a counterweight to the humanization of plants, to find something inhuman.

How does the inanimate appear alive? Do people interpret even the slightest movement as life? When do they begin to humanize this movement and project feelings and intentions onto it? How would they react to the vegetation around us if plants’ movements were ten times faster and observable?

With these thoughts in mind, I have juxtaposed mechanical fake plants and cultivated real ones. I have refined mechanical motion into as life-like a groping as possible.

At times, his sculptures seek physical closeness with the viewer; at other times, they present fragile, lifelike movement independently through electromechanical means. Eskelinen is interested in the question of how and why we interpret movement as living and conscious. In time-lapse videos, living plants attempt to solve various staged challenges, at times appearing strikingly human-like. 

Eskelinen has been awarded, among others, the Dukaatti Prize and the Finnish Artists’ Association Art Prize. His works have been exhibited in numerous gallery and museum exhibitions. 

Forum Box

31.10.-23.11.2025

Tue-Sun 12.00-17.00

Free entry