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Foam 3h: Finn Maätita and Jerrold Saija

Tones of the Ecotone

Foam 3h presents Tones of the Ecotone, a collaborative exhibition by Finn Maätita and Jerrold Saija, curated by guest curator Zippora Elders Tahalele. The exhibition offers an immersive, playful and intimate audiovisual landscape. Combining photography, assemblage, and media technologies, they express the relationship and overlap between humans, nature and ancestral knowledge.

About the exhibition

Tones of the Ecotone is a collaborative exhibition by Finn Maätita and Jerrold Saija. The exhibition honors the ‘ecotone’ – the transition zone between two ecosystems, such as between land and water – and connects this with the artists' Moluccan roots and the diaspora. The central focus is on the sago palm, the basis of the staple diet on the Moluccas, as a symbol of Moluccan ecological and physical omnipresence.

The exhibition is curated by guest curator Zippora Elders Tahalele, who invited the artists to Foam 3h. Like the artists, Elders has Moluccan roots and focuses in her curatorial practice on, among other things, collectivism and ecological restoration.

In the exhibition, images and sounds merge: the heartbeat of the artists, the rhythmic beats of the Moluccan tifa, the pounding of sago palm into sago flour, the preparation of papeda, the sound guidance of gaba-gaba sticks and the melodies of the suling gaba. The exhibition itself becomes a living ecotone, a meeting place for the Moluccan diaspora, where generations, knowledge and media merge into a new ecological whole.

Tones of the Ecotone, 2025 © Finn Maätita & Jerrold Saija.

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The exhibition is made possible by DLA Piper, the Van Bijlevelt Foundation and the Mondriaan Fund.


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