Marleen Suvi ^{Emerging artist}

Artist's country of origin: Estonia

Marleen Suvi (b. 1998) has graduated with a MA degree in the contemporary art program at the Estonian Academy of Arts and has a bachelor degree from the department of painting in the faculty of fine art at the Estonian Academy of Arts. Marleen Suvi is examining the interwovenness between the body and the human soul. At the moment she is working with ideas such as whether is it possible to meet yourself, how to let go of your selfishness and what it means to depict yourself in a sexual way. Most of her works are autoportraits. While writing haikus, the artist contemplates empty phrases, which arise from subconsciousness that sometimes seems to belong to someone else. She prefers to work with oil on canvas and glass. Among her recently held exhibitions are ‘‘A Visitor’’ (Hobusepea Gallery, 2022) and ‘‘So That the Body Does not Forget’’ (Vent Space Project Room, 2021).