The exhibition explores how time manifests itself and in which different phenomena or forms it can be observed or experienced.

As a hard-to-understand concept, time has caused a heated and protracted debate among philosophers, physicists, and artists alike. Instead of a precise definition, the exhibition offers different perspectives on time through sculptures, photographs, performances and video works.

The way the Earth's days are divided into hours, minutes and seconds is artificial, but it nevertheless has a fundamental effect on our activities. The pendulum in Erno Pystynen's work plays with the possibility of stopping time. The swings of the dials and the uninterrupted movement of the numbers on the dials have strongly influenced the dominant phenomenon, the rush, which is present in Ilmari Gryta's sculpture.

The layering and fragmentation of time

The element that stretches the experience of time, waiting, is present in the video works of Sebastian Stumpf and Santeri Tuori and in the installations of Heini Aho . The layered nature of time is an essential factor in the production of Australian media artist Daniel Crooks .

Today, time is no longer tied to a place, but we can be in several different times and places at the same time through different channels, which has contributed to the fragmentation of time. In Pekko Vasantola's work, flash-like moments are transmitted in real time from different parts of the world through open surveillance cameras.

As a whole, man's time on Earth has been short, because when looking at Earth's time as one day, man has only had time to live on the planet for the last few seconds. The artist group IC-98 has dealt with the limitations of linear time and the time after the human-centered conception of time in their production.