REFRACTION

4.12.2025 – 5.1.2026, Vuotalo (Mosaiikkitori 2, Helsinki)

Catalysti Association of Transcultural Artists is delighted to present the exhibition REFRACTION at Vuotalo cultural centre in Helsinki. The exhibition included works by: Greta Granö and a gallery of light and shadow, Landys Roimola, Shubhangi Singh, Lada Suomenrinne, and Aero and Ozeya Vineyard. Each piece looks at the use of light, our relationship to it, and what should be shed light on. As a curator, Ibrahim is interested in the depictions and usage of light by underrepresented artists in Finland, and how memory can move, freeze, exclude or include us.

REFRACTION is a group exhibition curated by Yasmin Ibrahim on light and memory. During the darkest month of the year, we remember memories engulfed in light, how they shift, change and become stagnant. Moving between the personal and the public, light is used in a metaphoric and literal sense to reflect what we experience and how it is portrayed to the outside world. Inspired by Ibrahim’s own relationship to light as an immigrant from the Global South living in the Northern Hemisphere, each selected artwork shows the fragility of light, how it changes memory, and what disrupts and settles it.

All images ©Dahlia El Broul