Her Posture

Somatic experiment, black & white photographs, poem

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:

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

Related publications

Tuominen, S. & Marila, 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]