Aron Fogelström, Still from the film Luniumi (2026)
April 25 – June 7, 2026
The exhibition is open Saturdays and Sundays from 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM.
We are opening our spring exhibition with newly created works by Raimo Saarinen and Aron Fogelström at Art Lab Gnesta. In Sinnenas tid (The Time of the Senses), scent and taste serve as gateways to questions of ecology, artificial production, memory, and the geologically and historically distant.
In Raimo Saarinen’s monumental installa-tion, plants, scent, and climate shape a specula-tive prehistoric world. The work takes its starting point in an ongoing attempt to recon-struct the scent of prehistoric forests from the Jurassic period. Among other things, Saarinen has engaged in conversations with a professor of botany, plant scientists, and a geoscientist to gain insight into what such a place might have looked like, what plants might have grown there, and what character it might have had.
Raimo Saarinen
Aron Fogelström’s film Luniumi (2026) focuses on the recreation of a taste. The elusive taste of luniumi becomes a tool for recollection, identification, and loss.
In the adjacent room, Fogelström’s sculptural installation is on display, based on colorful alginate forms. These forms were created through guerrilla-style casts of floors and details in grocery stores. The alginate’s various shades of fruit scent, recognizable yet difficult to pinpoint, belong to a collective memory shaped by candy, soft drinks, scented candles, and hygiene products. These indistinct artificial scents demonstrate how bodily experiences are increasingly synthesized, designed and circulated as sensory impressions.
Aron Fogelström, process photo.
With their site-specific installations, Aron Fogelström and Raimo Saarinen transform Art Lab Gnesta into a space for sensory explora-tion, where the body searches, gropes, and finds its bearings.
In Annie Ernaux’s book The Time of the Senses, time is experienced through the body and the senses. In this exhibition, scent, materials, and space convey similar experi-ences, as the past and the future enter the present through the body. Memory is shaped and awakened in what lingers, returns, and emerges again—in what the body retains long after a moment has passed.
Raimo Saarinen’s practice has long revolved around the relationship between humans and plants, and how the human lifeworld is shaped by culturally mediated notions of nature. Raimo Saarinen graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki in 2017, and his work has been exhibited at venues including the Helsinki Biennial and Maison Louis Carré in France.
Aron Fogelström explores film, sound, install-ation, and sculpture with curiosity. Drawing on his own experience of speech therapy, he works with the disciplining of the body, belonging, disorientation, and collective meaning-making. Aron Fogelström graduated from the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm in 2025, and his work has been exhibited at venues including the Seoul Mediacity Biennale, ZK/U in Berlin, and Nobel Week Lights.