The Tales We Tell
Solo exhibition at Galleria Loisti, Helsinki (2025)
With a text by Helen Korpak
Curated by Kamilla Kūna
Designer & architect Juozapas Švelnys
The Tales We Tell exhibition explores memory and how our relationship and understanding of memory frames the ways we see the world. Drawing on personal recollections, fragments and stories, the show takes the form of a series of works in visual art, installation, and writing.
The exhibition looks into how memory manifests in the current moment and human tendency to live within the familiar. An underlying theme of the personal becoming the universal runs through the works, measuring the boundaries between the past and the present, the individual and the collective.
The works dive into the notion of time, a crucial element for building memories. In The Tales We Tell, time is examined in relation to physics, spirituality, symbolism and poetics, with an aim to grasp multiple angles which shape the term and provide different sets of knowledge around it.
The exhibition is accompanied by a public program including an exhibition opening, Readings and Rewinding events.
The project is funded by the Lithuanian Council for Culture and supported by the Lithuanian Culture Institute.
Images by Valentina Černiauskaitė