What Is Left In the Temple of Memory
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Art project about time and memory
Black Box Genesis and Vaasa Museums invite you to an evening dedicated to memory and time, presenting the art project What is Left in the Temple of Memory.
Artists Bekim Hasaj and Valentina Gelain will present and discuss the project, which began in 2025 with
community meetings and collaborations, and the creative process and artistic production that gave rise
to the installation ‘The Hidden Spots’ in a century-old house in Övermark.
Unpublished documentary and artistic video material will be shown, and a selection of original interactive works from the century-old house will be displayed for the event in the museum’s outdoor spaces.
The artists, with the participation of Ilkka Nyqvist, will talk about future plans, which also intertwine with
the city of Vaasa and the Rahkola area.
In addition, the house in Övermark will reopen for the summer of 2026, and work on new interventions
and art pieces is underway.
Join us to find out more, welcome!
Program
16:00 – doors open
17:00 – Artist Talk (English)
18:00 – Vaasa City presentation (Swedish and Finnish)
20:00 – doors close
∞ – refreshments
Map
Project presentation and video screening – Third floor in two separate rooms
Exhibition – Garden in the main barn entrance
Refreshments – Café Falander Cellar
The event is free and open to everyone, younger visitors should be accompanied by an adult.
The museum’s other premises and permanent exhibition are closed to the public, and in case of cold tem-
peratures, the event program may change or be postponed.
There will be directions and information material on site. Please note that the location has stairs and
there is no elevator.
The event is organized by Black Box Genesis and Vaasa Museums. Event partners are Vaasa City Culture
Department and Elokuvakeskus Botnia.
The event is supported by Bröderna Gröndahls Stiftelse, and warm thanks go to the Palmroos family.
About the project
The interdisciplinary project ‘What is Left in the Temple of Memory’ is based on community research,
video art and site-specific installations to investigate the dynamics and phenomena between memory
and time.
The artist duo Hasaj-Gelain probed the human perception and alteration, the traces left behind that wear
out quickly and those that endure, history that fades and evaporates by repeating itself. What was so
important and what is now – linked to the personal, human and transcendental dimension. Perceiving
differently the possible values of impermanence in perpetual awareness.
Disused, abandoned, forgotten places what do they whisper… what do they exude?