Opening 8 January 2026
As the new year begins, GAP Window is pleased to present its fifth exhibition, Synaptic Loops, opening on 8 January 2026. Continuing GAP’s ongoing exploration of art in public space, this exhibition introduces a quiet yet powerful visual language that connects science, ornament, and inner experience through textile art.
About the Artist
Lyuba Sautina was born in Siberia and is currently based in Espoo. Her artistic practice explores the relationship between traditional culture and contemporary contexts, with a particular focus on representations of motherhood and childhood in culture and art. She approaches these themes as fragile constructs that intertwine natural and cultural elements.
Through her work, Sautina investigates human identity as expressed through cultural codes. She often examines everyday practices and gestures that lose meaning through repetition, removing them from their familiar context and transforming them into carriers of new significance or pushing them toward absurdity.
Her practice is deeply rooted in traditional handicraft techniques, including gold embroidery, pearl embroidery, and hand weaving. Alongside textile work, she employs a wide range of media such as video, audio, performance, and textile objects. By integrating established craft traditions into contemporary artistic frameworks, her work creates a dialogue between past and present, functionality and reflection.
About the Exhibition
Synaptic Loops is a series of embroidered works in which motifs inspired by neural connections are transformed into decorative forms that recall the flowing elegance of Art Nouveau. Rather than replicating scientific diagrams with precision, the works emerge from an intuitive artistic gesture, guided by the visual logic of neuronal branching and nerve impulses.
Delicate lines weave and loop across fabric, forming intricate ornamental structures that resemble metaphorical maps of inner space. These compositions suggest processes of thought, memory, and connection, translated into tactile surfaces that invite close observation. Through embroidery, neural pathways become meditative patterns, bridging scientific imagery with decorative tradition.
The works are created using embroidery on fabric with metallic threads, beads, and sequins. The reflective materials catch the light of the city, allowing the pieces to shift subtly throughout the day and night, echoing the dynamic nature of the mind itself.
In the GAP Window
Presented in the GAP Window, Synaptic Loops transforms the public space of Malminkatu into a site for quiet contemplation. The exhibition invites passersby to pause and engage with the delicate complexity of embroidered surfaces that speak to both inner experience and shared cultural memory.
As GAP continues its mission to bring contemporary art into everyday urban life, this exhibition offers a moment of stillness and introspection at the start of the year, encouraging viewers to consider the invisible systems that shape thought, identity, and connection.
GAP WINDOW is a window exhibition project initiated by Globe Art Point in 2021. The concept was created for the members of GAP Creatives Database with an aim to provide a unique opportunity to exhibit and/or experiment with their own artistic work and ideas.
Our window is visible from the street, you do not need a special access to see it.