Alma Heikkilä presents a newly produced body of work at Grazer Kunstverein
View of Alma Heikkilä, found living in total darkness, 2020 at Grazer Kunstverein. Photo: Christine Winkler.
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.- Describe the feeling: Energy (food / organic matter) going through my body, my colon. Soil (food / organic matter) going through the worms body. A neat pile of poop after us. Soft and flexible tunnels that are our bodies. Slowly, twisting around each other, humidity, and us reaching towards the rhizomes or them reaching to us.
Alma Heikkilä is fascinated by the collective activities of soil creatures; from nematodes to fungi, spores to mycelium. Heikkiläs artistic work evokes a deep sensorial knowledge of ecosystems and the interdependencies of myriad organisms in mutual co-existence. Finding form in sculpture and large-scale painting, she strives to create a space for humans to imagine an up-close encounter or experience with the invisible processes that occur in the soil, often