These are landscapes below the border of skin—the worlds of microbes and bacteria, complex systems that live, work, reproduce and communicate with each other. The events that take place there have a direct effect on our well-being as well as on our whole persona. Conscious awareness of the existence of this strangest, yet nearest layer of nature should be constantly practised.
Other non-walkable places are those born in our minds with the help of the inhabitants of the aforementioned landscapes—the nerve cells. When imagining something, the image pops into our consciousness through them. So when someone thinks of cells, it could almost be said that cells tell the person about themselves.
Solveig Lill (b 1994) received a bachelor’s degree in painting from the University of Tartu and a master’s degree in contemporary art from the Estonian Academy of Arts (2020). She has also studied as an exchange student at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK). Through various visual media, Lill speaks of the microworld as a level of life that is physically
inaccessible to humans, full of complexities which can only be imagined. She has participated in several exhibitions in Tallinn, Tartu, Vilnius and Berlin. Her first solo exhibition “In the Closest Distances” took place in 2019 in Tallinn, at the Vent Space Gallery.
