Artist Sini Henttu (b. 1988) primarily works with video art, installations, and performances. In her works, Henttu explores the intersections of society and subjectivity through multimateriality. Often, the focal points of her pieces are the body and the various dimensions of touch. She is particularly intrigued by how materials affect us and how the affective experiences produced by objects feel in the body. Through her art, she aims to create spaces that examine different ways of experiencing.

In Henttu’s works for the FIX: Care and Repair exhibition, art and design seamlessly intertwine. Henttu’s video series Fantasman sylissä (In Phantasma’s Arms) invites imagining alongside chairs borrowed from the museums’ workspaces. The focal point of the piece, besides the objects themselves, is the sounds they produce and the affective experiences felt in the body.

Henttu graduated in 2022 from Aalto University with a master’s degree in Contemporary Design. The artist has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions, residency programmes, as well as community-based and interactive performance work. Additionally, she has appeared as a video artist in various events, including Zodiak, Kiasma, Ateneum, as well as festivals.

Architect and musician Helmi Kajaste (b. 1986) is currently a doctoral researcher at Aalto University. Kajaste’s doctoral dissertation in architectural theory explores the concept of boundaries through the lens of cinema. Previously, she has addressed architecture and film in articles and in her book ‘Rakenna, kärsi ja unhoita’ [Build, Suffer, and Forget] published in 2020. Kajaste is also known as Draama-Helmi in the music scene. In 2023, she won the Teosto Prize for her album ‘Draama-Helmi kuistilla’.

For the FIX: Care and Repair exhibition Helmi Kajaste and poet Petra Vallila create a site-specific Siivousmusiikkia (Cleaning Music) sound installation for the museum space, combining spoken poetry and concrete (cleaning) music. The piece explores what sound constitutes interference and what belongs to the space.

Petra Vallila (b. 1983) is a poet, writer, and corporate communicator. For her, poetry serves as a research method to seek experiences and meanings that have not yet been articulated in factual texts. Through poetry, she aims to find freedom in negotiating things that are usually contractually defined. Vallila’s debut book ‘ehkä’ [Perhaps] was a nominee for the Helsingin Sanomat Literary Prize in 2022. The work shapes poetry around existence in a commercial company and a slightly unstable gaze built upon corporate language. Vallila graduated with a master’s degree in fine arts from the University of the Arts Helsinki in 2021. Leveraging her earlier master’s degree in political science, Vallila has for an extensive period held communication expert roles in multinational companies both in Finland and abroad.