Sekvenssi presents a new series of paintings built on the foundation of repetition and rhythm, with a focus on ambient, ethereal, and spatial moods.

Havia uses line as both a subject and as a visual element. As the core visual motif in this new series of works, line carries the artist forward, allowing his thoughts to move freely and, through its variations, generate meaning. Music and movement, neurotic behavioral patterns, everyday routines, the artist’s running practice, and ultimately, beneath it all, existential questions and concerns about the world, inform each work.

The artist’s process is organic yet deliberate, with each work part of a sekvenssi, or sequence. Havia starts with one canvas, and as he senses the composition needs more space and expansion, he creates another canvas next to it, and then another, and another, until each piece reaches its final form. The series presented in Sekvenssi assembled itself through this process of sequential growth, with repetition at its center while capturing the layered and evolving nature of each work.

The carefully selected colors arise from memory, mostly from Åland, where Havia has spent much of the past two summers. Running trips, pauses at the ferry, an electronic music festival in the middle of nowhere, nights spent on the shore sitting on cliffs, watching the shifting colors as the sun sets—these moments have deeply shaped the series’ palette.

Havia’s new series at first appears minimalistic and calm. However, a closer inspection reveals fast, chaotic lines swirling beneath each surface, offering an alternative perspective on the ongoing, restless motion of the world.