LANA HAGA | ACCUMULATION

Accumulation

Accumulation brings together a series of sculptural installations constructed from extruded plastic, dyed elastic bands, and domestic steel frameworks. Kitchen shelves, a temporary bed frame, and trays—objects originally designed to support, contain, and organise—are burdened and reconfigured as structural hosts for layered synthetic matter.

Viscous ribbons of molten plastic are applied directly from the extrusion process, while still in a liquid state. As the material settles, it sags, layers, and gathers through the steel architecture, registering gravity and resistance within its surface. Glossy, semi-translucent accumulations press against rigid white metal, creating tension between fluidity and containment, softness and load.

In contrast, lengths of elastic bands are dyed, saturated, and left to dry, allowing their natural bends and resistance to determine their final form. Rather than being shaped into mass, the elastic occupies space through stored tension and recoil. Piled within the bed frame or compressed into the circular steel tray, it occupies the framework according to its own structural logic.

Across the exhibition, accumulation operates as both method and condition. Different materials gather according to their own physical properties—plastic through viscosity and gravity, elastic through resistance and memory—while steel provides the architecture that holds them in relation.

The exhibition is supported by Arts Promotion Centre Finland, Amos Andersons Foundation