FOMO
HEMULOORDI
15.5.-21.6.2026
Art Hall Fikka
Summer, the year’s biggest Fomo season, is approaching, and it reaches Fikka too! In a video work, artist HEMULOORDI shares holiday snapshots from the run-down beach town of San Pere in Spain and reflects on their social media behaviour and that human yet embarrassing-feeling sensation of Fomo. Is Fomo truly the modern human’s most authentic and rawest emotion, the one that drives us forward like libido? Or is Fomo itself the original sin of greed and the root of all evil? While some fear being left out, elsewhere others really are. Everything is woven together through the screen, on whose other side the others always are.
About the Artist
HEMULOORDI (b. 1989) is a Helsinki-based sculptor who works primarily with ceramics and video. HEMULOORDI graduated with a Master’s degree in Fine Arts from the Academy of Fine Arts in 2021, but has previously studied art at Tampere University of Applied Sciences, Art School MAA, and Savonlinna taidelukio (Savonlinna Art High School). HEMULOORDI’s works have been shown at, among other places, the Mänttä Art Festival, the Young Artists 2015 exhibition, and the Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition in Copenhagen. You can see HEMULOORDI’s public video artwork in the foyer of Nokia Arena, where ”Kiitos 19.30-20.00” has been playing since 2022. HEMULOORDI’s works are also in the collections of Kiasma, the State Art Deposit Collection, the Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation, and Helsinki Art Museum.
In 2020, the grant jury of the Raimo Utriainen Foundation (Tuomo Tuovinen and Alma Heikkilä) described HEMULOORDI’s practice as follows: ”In the global digital environment, Hemuloordi senses echoes of Finnish unified culture, where reading is learned from Donald Duck and shouting from watching ice hockey. In Hemuloordi’s psychedelic-lowbrow mythology, the image motifs, figures and phenomena of popular culture, internet forums, politics, computer interfaces and art history hover between the screen and the tangible world, constantly shifting form.”