At M_itä? Biennial of Contemporary Art, KUMMA Museum, Kuopio, Finland, 2025–26
Forest Line, Nitra Gallery, Slovakia, 2023–24
Ghost pipes (Lat. Monotropa uniflora) are plants that lack chlorophyll and can live exceptionally in the dark without photosynthesizing. The existence of Monotropa was long a biological mystery, which eventually led to the discovery of the invisible transfer of substances between trees and other plants via fungal pathways.
Monotropa are a concrete manifestation of the vast multiplicity that exists beyond the reach of human perception but has a crucial impact on our existence. The impact of the complex fabric of mycorrhizal connections underground extends to all terrestrial ecosystems, including us.
Laurinen’s site-specific installation uses low-frequency soundwaves to create an intangible sense of presence that vibrates amorphously underfoot, in one’s body and throughout the space. It blurs boundaries between the external and the internal, asking where one ends and another begins in a living whole, in which everything is inextricably linked.
From the installation at M_itä? Biennial of Contemporary Art, KUMMA Museum, Kuopio, Finland. 20.9.2025–11.1.2026
Installation at Forest Line, Nitra Gallery, Nitra, Slovakia. 1.12.2023–25.2.2024