“Skin hunger” is a film and an exhibition about love. With care and tenderness, the life of which is passed on across generations, we assemble like rafters after rain. There is much to be said, like ghosts we rapture across Earth: With our ears peeled and eyes soft, I jump into the bliss of being human, being Earth, being a body. As clouds form, they tend to stick to objects, places, people, landscapes, motions to be looked at with tears on our skins and tremors in our eyes. We return to it, as it looks upon us, we do not know, we tend to be wild, and temperate and mild. Not knowing who we look at when we look at ourselves. Some wishes tend to be taken on heavy and let go lightly. I step and you step. I step. There is no in between. Only the love and the violence of being of the same body.
Letting my skin mix with sand, my ears with light, my saliva with waters, my breath with great distances, I think – could observing be like caressing? When it is hard to attend towards love with another human, what can love be, with ourselves, with the Earth?
Remembering that nature is not something to reconnect to, I turn to a prickled sensibility to hold skin as much as light, listening as much as touching, sound as much as waves.
– Sille Kima
With a solo exhibition for Viljandi old water tower – an observation tower today – Sille Kima studies the lack of intimacy in relations of human to human, human to more-than and inhuman as well as the taboo of articulating love. With an exploration centering around film, sound and ultimately sensibility, they rekindle that the human is not the centerpiece, but a part of the diversity entangled along roots-fingers-expanses-bodies, that is our planet.
Sille Kima is an artist, engineer and a mover in body, sense and sound. Her work is rooted in sensuality and collective ways of being. Based on her collaboration with particle physicists on the borderlines of art and science, she looks at love through a scalar ecological lens, melting the textual, sensual and auditory across disciplines and spacetimes. As seasons allow, she also pollinates tomato blossoms, both on her windowsill and in gardens with open gates. One of them is an open garden and a garden residency she is co-running with the artist Sandra Kosorotova in Kreenholm, near Narva Art Residency.
Artworks:
“Skin hunger”, (2021), HD video, colour, 5.1 sound.
Gallerist: Monika Eensalu-Pihel
Graphic Designer: Maria Muuk
Technical team: Johannes Säre, Kerli Praks, Taavi Suisalu, Rainer-Robert Suun
Sound Design: Arjuna Neuman, Aleksander Sinka, Siim Skepast, Gabriel Solis
Supporters: Eesti Kultuurkapital / Cultural Endowment of Estonia, Sakala Keskus
With thanks to: Kaisa Sööt, Kristjan Vilgo, Laura Kuusk, Sandra Kosorotova, Anne Alliksoo, Maarja Hindoalla, Kaisa Maasik, Laura Cemin, Katrin Enni, Argo Kask, Proloogkool
SKIN HUNGER
Sille Kima
19.06. – 11.07.2021
Viljandi old water tower
Johan Laidoneri plats 5, Viljandi
Exhibition view of Skin hunger at Viljandi old Water tower, Sille Kima (2021). Photo: Kaisa Maasik
Exhibition view of Skin hunger at Viljandi old Water tower, Sille Kima (2021). Photo: Kaisa Maasik
Exhibition view of Skin hunger at Viljandi old Water tower, Sille Kima (2021). Photo: Kaisa Maasik
Exhibition view of Skin hunger at Viljandi old Water tower, Sille Kima (2021). Photo: Kaisa Maasik
Exhibition view of Skin hunger at Viljandi old Water tower, Sille Kima (2021). Photo: Kaisa Maasik
Exhibition view of Skin hunger at Viljandi old Water tower, Sille Kima (2021). Photo: Kaisa Maasik
Exhibition view of Skin hunger at Viljandi old Water tower, Sille Kima (2021). Photo: Kaisa Maasik
Exhibition view of Skin hunger at Viljandi old Water tower, Sille Kima (2021). Photo: Kaisa Maasik
Exhibition view of Skin hunger at Viljandi old Water tower, Sille Kima (2021). Photo: Kaisa Maasik
Exhibition view of Skin hunger at Viljandi old Water tower, Sille Kima (2021). Photo: Kaisa Maasik
Exhibition view of Skin hunger at Viljandi old Water tower, Sille Kima (2021). Photo: Kaisa Maasik
Still from the film “Skin hunger”, (2021), HD video, colour, 5.1 sound. Courtesy of the artist.
Still from the film “Skin hunger”, (2021), HD video, colour, 5.1 sound. Courtesy of the artist.
Still from the film “Skin hunger”, (2021), HD video, colour, 5.1 sound. Courtesy of the artist.
Exhibition view of Skin hunger at Viljandi old Water tower, Sille Kima (2021). Photo: Kaisa Maasik
Exhibition view of Skin hunger at Viljandi old Water tower, Sille Kima (2021). Photo: Kaisa Maasik
Exhibition view of Skin hunger at Viljandi old Water tower, Sille Kima (2021). Photo: Kaisa Maasik
Exhibition view of Skin hunger at Viljandi old Water tower, Sille Kima (2021). Photo: Kaisa Maasik
Exhibition view of Skin hunger at Viljandi old Water tower, Sille Kima (2021). Photo: Kaisa Maasik
