Vinayak: Babirusa vol. II – Terminal Diasporic

Vinayak’s exhibition Terminal Diasporic is a fictional non-place—here, an abandoned parking lot. Its architecture rises from the dissonant din of turbid tercets, from the mercurial movements of human and more-than-human errant bodies, from salvaged traces and many happy accidents. Terminal Diasporic is the second in a trilogy of book-exhibitions titled Babirusa. 

The exhibition is an exercise in speculative world-building performed through poetic strategies, moving fluidly across the various scales of today’s photography. Drawing from Édouard Glissant’s framework of Relation and his notion of utopia, Vinayak’s works activate vernacular archives gathered from Helsinki’s urban limits and forgotten vestiges of the internet through a series of performative gestures and play. The visual landscape of the show is an amalgamation between Vinayak’s own photography and AI generated images.  

Vinayak (b. 1991) is from Kerala, India, currently based in Helsinki. Through photobook-works and exhibitions, he gathers, dissects, analyzes, and re-appropriates various tropes associated with the photographic medium and its contemporary condition.

Finnish Museum of Photography

16.1.-22.3.2026

Tue-Fri 11.00-19.00

Sat-Sun 11.00-18.00

Admission fee 0-16€