Lana Haga
A THOUSAND PLATEAU
Solo exhibition at MUU Contemporary Art Centre, Helsinki, 9 – 31 August 2025
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The exhibition features new sculptures made of post-industrial plastic, reliefs made of cotton twine and oil paint as well as a textile and mirror installation, works that explore continuous transformation across material, process and conceptual systems. An audio work created in collaboration with the French sound artist Fayf Abad aims to activate the works in the exhibition and to create an immersive and contemplative space.
A Thousand Plateaus takes its title from the book by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, referencing the idea of rhizomes—structures that grow in multiple directions without a fixed centre, forming an interconnected system. This concept closely mirrors Haga’s artistic process, which moves fluidly across different media and materials, embracing openness, transformation and chance encounters. Each work emerges within a system where materials, ideas, and techniques intersect organically. The rhizomatic nature of this process is not only present in how these works come into being but also in how they are visually perceived. The reference to plateaus in the title is twofold: it reflects the theoretical framework that underpins this exhibition and is physically embodied in the sculptural ridges and folds present in the works on display.
Fayf Abad’s sound work for A Thousand Plateaus creates a meditative listening space that echoes the exhibition’s themes of transformation and fluidity. Through gentle frequencies, slow textures, field recordings, and analogue/digital synthesis, sound becomes a material in motion—vibrating, shifting, and interacting with the objects, the space and the body.
Lana Haga (b.1986) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Vaasa, Finland. Working across sculpture, installation, relief, and text, she often repurposes post-consumer and postindustrial materials—such as plastic, textiles, and leather—to explore psychological, material and planetary transformation. Her work often draws from speculative lifeforms, geological time, and personal rupture, using contrasting surfaces—raw, reflective, synthetic—to examine how we mutate, endure, and reassemble in a world shaped by excess and collapse. Notable institutional exhibitions include the solo presentation at the Kunsthalle Vaasa (2022), Finland, and participating in national and international exhibitions, such as Royal Academy of Arts (2015) in London, the United Kingdom, at the Ostrobothnian Museum (2023) in Vaasa, Finland and at Harkko Museum, Raisio, Finland (2025).
Fayf Abad is a French sound artist and producer of contemporary electronic music, art director and music maker. His practice explores the potential of ambient soundscapes through pieces that question the meaning of one's relationship with oneself and the world around us, and how music and sound evolve to create personal experiences.
www.instagram.com/faafabad
The exhibition is supported by Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike), The Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland, Konstsamfundet and The VISEK Centre for the Promotion of Visual Art. The exhibition is a part of the Galleria Week Finland festival 26-31 August 2025.
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A THOUSAND PLATEAU
Solo exhibition at MUU Contemporary Art Centre, Helsinki, 9 – 31 August 2025
The exhibition features new sculptures made of post-industrial plastic, reliefs made of cotton twine and oil paint as well as a textile and mirror installation, works that explore continuous transformation across material, process and conceptual systems. An audio work created in collaboration with the French sound artist Fayf Abad aims to activate the works in the exhibition and to create an immersive and contemplative space.
A Thousand Plateaus takes its title from the book by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, referencing the idea of rhizomes—structures that grow in multiple directions without a fixed centre, forming an interconnected system. This concept closely mirrors Haga’s artistic process, which moves fluidly across different media and materials, embracing openness, transformation and chance encounters. Each work emerges within a system where materials, ideas, and techniques intersect organically. The rhizomatic nature of this process is not only present in how these works come into being but also in how they are visually perceived. The reference to plateaus in the title is twofold: it reflects the theoretical framework that underpins this exhibition and is physically embodied in the sculptural ridges and folds present in the works on display.
Fayf Abad’s sound work for A Thousand Plateaus creates a meditative listening space that echoes the exhibition’s themes of transformation and fluidity. Through gentle frequencies, slow textures, field recordings, and analogue/digital synthesis, sound becomes a material in motion—vibrating, shifting, and interacting with the objects, the space and the body.
Lana Haga (b.1986) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Vaasa, Finland. Working across sculpture, installation, relief, and text, she often repurposes post-consumer and postindustrial materials—such as plastic, textiles, and leather—to explore psychological, material and planetary transformation. Her work often draws from speculative lifeforms, geological time, and personal rupture, using contrasting surfaces—raw, reflective, synthetic—to examine how we mutate, endure, and reassemble in a world shaped by excess and collapse. Notable institutional exhibitions include the solo presentation at the Kunsthalle Vaasa (2022), Finland, and participating in national and international exhibitions, such as Royal Academy of Arts (2015) in London, the United Kingdom, at the Ostrobothnian Museum (2023) in Vaasa, Finland and at Harkko Museum, Raisio, Finland (2025).
Fayf Abad is a French sound artist and producer of contemporary electronic music, art director and music maker. His practice explores the potential of ambient soundscapes through pieces that question the meaning of one's relationship with oneself and the world around us, and how music and sound evolve to create personal experiences.
www.instagram.com/faafabad
The exhibition is supported by Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike), The Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland, Konstsamfundet and The VISEK Centre for the Promotion of Visual Art. The exhibition is a part of the Galleria Week Finland festival 26-31 August 2025.
