Axel Straschnoy

The exhibition, part of the Fine Arts Academy of Finland Foundation Prize, invites to test the boundaries of political imagination and reflect on the potential of utopian thought. Artist and filmmaker Axel Straschnoy (b. 1978, Buenos Aires) creates a spatial installation for EMMA, rooted in his long-standing interest in space science and related social phenomena. Straschnoy’s new work explores Posadism, a fringe leftist movement that emerged in 1960s Argentina. One of the most radical ideas of the movement’s founder, Trotskyist activist J. Posadas, was the proposition that contact with communist extraterrestrials could help humanity build a new society on Earth – one without exploitation or poverty. Straschnoy revisits the Posadist vision in a time marked by deepening political, military, and ecological crises. By weaving together core ideas of the movement and references to search for extraterrestrial intelligence, the artist invites us to reach not only for the stars but also towards an alternative future centred on equality, abundance, and freedom. EMMA, Espoo 15.4.-9.8.2026 Admission fee 0-20€