Foreshadowing

28 March - 26 April 2026

Foreshadowing by Sanna Håkans is a series of works based on photographs taken in the 1950s in rural Ostrobothnia. The images come from Sanna’s family archive, black-and-white medium-format photographs. Each photograph is cast into a layer of wax and paraffin blended with color pigment, creating a semi-transparent surface that both conceals and reveals. 

The works investigate memory as a shifting, material process that changes over time. Sanna looks at how images from the past are affected by the present—returning to her grandfather’s undeveloped negatives and observing how time has altered them. The underlying post-war optimism in the original photographs appears almost as an unsettling dream in relation to the uncertainty of our contemporary moment. Like memory itself, the works bring forward fragments—gestures and gazes that the artist seeks to rescue from oblivion.

- “𝘐 𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘚𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘢 𝘏å𝘬𝘢𝘯𝘴' 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘱𝘰𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘩𝘺, 𝘸𝘢𝘹, 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘯, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘪𝘨𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵. 𝘚𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘻𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘢𝘭 𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘧𝘭𝘶𝘪𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘭𝘺 𝘦𝘷𝘰𝘭𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦.”- 𝘓𝘪𝘯𝘢 𝘚𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳, 𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳 𝘨𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵.