Her Posture

This artwork, which comprises of a somatic experiment conducted at two WW2 PoW camp sites in the Finnish Lapland and related photography, has been exhibited twice:

1. Printed artwork and poem in ​The soil is sentient: An Ar(t)chaeological Exhibit at Low Memorial Library, Columbia University, NY (2020). Artwork created in collaboration with archaeologist and performance artist Suvi Tuominen.
2. Digital photograph and poem in The Soil is Sentient online group exhibit curated by Natalia Granquist and Jorie Van Nest (2021). Produced in collaboration with Suvi Tuominen.

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Related literature

• Tuominen, S. & Marila, M.M. 2022. I shed tears, left, and forgot. The common frog, mosquitoes, and Grandmother Pine stayed. In: Heritage Ecologies, edited by T.R. Bangstad & Þ. Pétursdóttir, pp. 369–380. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315101019

Photograph by Marko Mikael Marila

Photograph by Jeff Benjamin