The Seasonal Laboratories for Other Worlds
SLOW — The Seasonal Laboratories for Other Worlds hosts exhibitionary workspaces where we build connections between bodies, places, and economies through art.
The Laboratories explore alternative ways of being and organising by offering a framework for trans-local learning, collective labouring, and anti-capitalist dreaming.
SLOW is curated by Micol Curatolo.
The Laboratories explore alternative ways of being and organising by offering a framework for trans-local learning, collective labouring, and anti-capitalist dreaming.
SLOW is curated by Micol Curatolo.
PRESS
24-25 September 2026, ‘Positioning Symposium’ at EMMA Museum of Modern Art.
November 2025, Symposium ‘Curatorial Matters’, PUBLICS / Aalto University.
The exhibition Wey Dey Move by Dele Adeyemo was featured in Helsingin Sanomat's must see exhibitions in Helsinki, 10 October 2025.
Lola Olufemi was interview by AK Wane on NO NIIN Magazine, Issue 31, August 2025.
FUNDERS
In 2025, the project was initiated in collaboration with the Museum of Impossible Forms (Helsinki, Finland). It was funded by Kone Foundation as part of Micol’s research on ‘Border politics in contemporary curatorial practice.’
In 2026, the program is supported by Suomen Kulttuurirahasto.
In 2026, the program is supported by Suomen Kulttuurirahasto.
The Seasonal Laboratories for Other Worlds
2 0 2 5 E X H I B I T I O N S & E V E N T S
2 0 2 5 E X H I B I T I O N S & E V E N T S
Wey Dey Move: Remember Dancing Cosmologies
Dele Adeyemo
Museum of Impossible Forms
9 Oct - 9 Nov 2025
Wey dey move is a Nigerian Pidgin term said to describe the way things constantly shift, as different bodies intersect and circulate, drawing the outlines of places in a complex choreography. While the process of urbanisation in West Africa rapidly unfolds, sand, people, waters and ecologies are in constant flux along the Nigerian coast.
On a watery edge of Lagos, the residents of the indigenous settlement of Oworonshoki live the rhythms of endurance of the lagoon and are intersected by the extractive processes of real-estate development that voraciously dredge sand from the waterbed for urban expansion.
A group of young people in Oworonshoki finds in dance a space of resistance and political expression.
Featured in Helsingin Sanomat's must see exhibitions in Helsinki, 10th October 2025.
Myriam Gras
Museum of Impossible Forms, Helsinki
15-24 August 2025
The exhibition ‘The Price of Bloom’ traces the journey of the fruit sold in Finnish grocery shops back to the south of Spain in Murcia, where large quantities of fruit are produced for the European market. The artist Myriam Gras follows the work of local peach farmers who narrate how the landscape and horticulture have been transformed by the expansion of agricultural technologies, the taste of consumers elsewhere, and the impact of climate change.
Centred around the peach tree, the exhibition focuses on the network of workers, businesses and knowledges that act around fruit production. The peach tree embodies and resists these contradictions. Its pink bloom nestles between asphalt roads and the opaque luminescence of greenhouse plantations. Too sensitive to grow under mechanised conditions, the peach requires extensive ma.nual labour and the development of new ways of knowing. Its flowers become a symbol of the potential worth of the harvest, and a metaphor – hidden behind the aesthetic expectations of global consumerism – of the rupture between production methods and environmental knowledge.
Lola Olufemi
Museum of Impossible Forms, Helsinki
18 & 21 March 2025
We are delighted to host for the first time in Helsinki, acclaimed Black feminist writer, researcher, and organizer Lola Olufemi.
Her work interrogates the structures of oppression while imagining liberatory futures rooted in collective struggle, radical politics, and care. Bridging her research, writing and activism, Lola Olufemi has prompted us to learn from the material and visual cultures of feminist, Black, and leftist organising. Olufemi has urged us to "take feeling seriously intellectually," to nurture a materialist approach to political imagination, and search a rupture in our political aesthetics against pessimism. From Olufemi's thinking, we gathered poetics and intellectual strategies to imagine and believe that another world is possible: connecting objects, actions and feelings across and against time; living against predictability; reanimating images and texts; rehearsing and repeating; repairing our connections to others; trying over and again. Olufemi narrates the aesthetics of a liberation stemming from the coalition of many routes and struggles.
Her work interrogates the structures of oppression while imagining liberatory futures rooted in collective struggle, radical politics, and care. Bridging her research, writing and activism, Lola Olufemi has prompted us to learn from the material and visual cultures of feminist, Black, and leftist organising. Olufemi has urged us to "take feeling seriously intellectually," to nurture a materialist approach to political imagination, and search a rupture in our political aesthetics against pessimism. From Olufemi's thinking, we gathered poetics and intellectual strategies to imagine and believe that another world is possible: connecting objects, actions and feelings across and against time; living against predictability; reanimating images and texts; rehearsing and repeating; repairing our connections to others; trying over and again. Olufemi narrates the aesthetics of a liberation stemming from the coalition of many routes and struggles.