Océane Bruel & Vincent Roumagnac: tokonoma series IV. PSAMIDES

Name: Océane Bruel & Vincent Roumagnac: tokonoma series IV. PSAMIDES
Start: 2025-09-06T14:00:00+03:00
End: 2025-09-09T16:00:00+03:00
Location: Hakaniemenranta 26A , 00530 Helsinki, Finland

Schedule

Sat, 06 Sep, 2025 at 02:00 pm to Tue, 09 Sep, 2025 at 04:00 pm

UTC+03:00

Location

Hakaniemenranta 26A , 00530 Helsinki, Finland | Helsinki, ES

tokonoma series
IV. PSAMIDES
Océane Bruel & Vincent Roumagnac
4-7 SEPT. 2025
Thursday, Friday, Saturday: 14:00-19:00
Sunday: 14:00-16:00
30' booking slot (one person at a time) / Free
Booking here:
https://pro.vello.fi/hakaniemenranta26atyohuone/service
tokonoma series
The tokonoma is a small alcove within a traditional Japanese home which serves as a little stage for showcasing a mise-en-scène consisting of specific works of art, including calligraphy (kakejiku) and floral arrangements (ikebana), often complemented by precious objects of craftsmanship. The tokonoma functions as an indoor container, harmonizing these artifacts to reflect the actual season. The tokonoma is not just a receptacle but an artwork per se, embodying the multiple interactions at play among architecture, interior, exterior, and the triptych-arrangement poem/flowers/object.
Since spring 2024, Vincent Roumagnac has been inviting artist friends to collaboratively realise contemporary tokonomas in Työhuone.
IV. PSAMIDES
This past June, Océane visits Työhuone to see "tokonoma series III SUNKISSED LOITER", co-made by Vincent with Sari Palosaari. Since there is no booking for the next slot, Vincent suggests she come with him to see his new planting box at the Merihaka City Farmers, just a block away. Océane says “Perfect timing, I have my seeds with me, I can give you some.” She offers teddy bear sunflower, calendula, and hollyhock, and they plant them together. While watering, they talk about how nice it would be to make a tokonoma together, perhaps replaying the Psamides - from the project they carried out together in 2023 - with flowers from their own gardening. Océane suggests: “Let’s meet by my garden at the end of August or the beginning of September for the last flowers of the summer, and let’s do it!”
OCÉANE BRUEL (b. 1991, Montpellier, France; based in Helsinki) is a visual artist working with sculpture and installation. Through a sensitive material and spatial practice, she explores an ecology of everyday affects, advocating for a politics of attention. Her works engage with questions of embodiment, loss, relation and transformation, often unfolding through fragile yet resonant material gestures. She has presented solo and duo exhibitions in Finland and internationally, including at SIC, Helsinki (2025), In extenso, Clermont-Ferrand (2024), Light Harvesting Complex, Vantaa (2024), Pengerkatu 7 Työhuone, Helsinki (2022), La BF15, Lyon (2020), Gether Contemporary, Copenhagen (2020), Muu Kaapeli, Helsinki (2019), and AIR Sandnes, Norway (2018). Her work has also been shown in group exhibitions across Finland, the Nordic countries, Germany, France, and Australia. Bruel’s works are part of public collections including the Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki Art Museum, and the Saastamoinen Foundation, as well as several private collections. In parallel with her solo practice, she has collaborated since 2016 with Dylan Ray Arnold as the duo Touristes Tristes.
www.oceanebruel.com / ig: oceanebruel
VINCENT ROUMAGNAC (b. 1973, Biarritz, Basque Country, France; based in Helsinki) began his professional artistic life in theatre, initially as an actor and later as a director. However, He moved away from straight theatre practices and modes of production, focusing instead on how theatricality evolves in response to climate urgency and technological advancements, within what he has coined a discipline-fluid methodology. His works, which merge visual, installation, and performing arts, are rooted in intervention and site-sensitive ecologies. By playing obliquely with the memory of Western theatre, its conventions and internal operating modes, its architecture, and its literature, Roumagnac transforms his practice of directing into what he calls 'redirecting'. Redirecting material, time, attention, method, agency, and spectatorship based on the conditions and dynamics of the stage as milieu, rather than as center from an anthropocentric perspective. Since 2010 they team with Finnish choreographer Simo Kellokumpu and since 2012 with French visual artist Aurélie Pétrel, with whom they are, in 2020, winner of the Villa Kujoyama Residency prize. In 2020, he completes his Doctorate in Arts at TUTKE-Performing Arts Research Centre/Uniarts Helsinki, with his artistic research project ‘Reacclimating the Stage’. In 2025, meanwhile starting the new project Stages of Flower Power/s, he publishes as part of the Acta Scenica series (Uniarts Helsinki), as a visiting artist-researcher at the same institution, the final exposition of his four-year post-doctoral artistic research project DATA OCEAN THEATRE, whose three main artistic parts were publicly shown at the Titanik gallery (Turku) in 2022, and in 2023, at Augusta Gallery/HIAP and at Kiasma (Helsinki) on the occasion of the Moving November international festival. Since 2020, Vincent has been co-hosting with Simo Kellokumpu Pengerkatu 7 (now Hakaniemenranta 26) Työhuone in Helsinki.
www.vincentroumagnac.com / ig: vincent_roumagnac
Accessibility:
Työhuone is located on the street level. The door is 80 cm wide.