Sound Anatomy

Textile and fiber artist Niina Hiltunen’s solo exhibition Sound Anatomy includes four installations, made in 2025-2026 specifically for this solo show. The installations try to capture and materialize sound and its essence. What would sound look like, if it was dressed in abstract textile art?

In the artworks Hiltunen has dismantled and reassembled sound. The artworks consist of multiple layers and parts, just like the sounds we hear. Vibration, partials and too low frequencies for us humans to hear take spatial form. The artworks build and form soundscapes, textilic spaces, visible realities and spatial experiences of sound. The gallery space becomes a sounding experience to wander through and the multimateriality of the artworks makes sound touchable.

Hiltunen’s main technique is hand weaving. Often the fabric is washed or fulled to give it more three-dimensionality. In these artworks Hiltunen has used various kinds of textile techniques (hand weaving, machine sewing, embroidery), traditional and non-traditional materials (wool, cotton, double bass and cello strings). The huge amount of woven metres, 365 metres to be precise, of the artwork Sounding Silence has required machine weaving. The monochrome colour scale gives way to the three-dimensionality, spatiality and vibrating nature of the artworks, and the folded pile of fabric in Sounding Silence creates a strong contrast to the other free-hanging works of art.

The exhibition and the artistic work has been supported by:

The Finnish Art and Culture Agency, Auno and Mauri Riuttu Foundation, Suomen Lanka Oy and Pirastro GmbH.

Sound Anatomy
7.-26.10.2026
Gallery Uusi Kipinä, Kulma
Kymintie 1, 15140 Lahti, Finland

Open:
Tue-Fri 12-18, Sat-Sun 12-16
Mondays closed

Meet the artist on October 25th, at 2-4 pm.