On June 6th, the Seek gallery at the Museum of Photography opens SOO, a solo exhibition by Alyona Movko-Mägi. The exhibition invites visitors on a poetic and sensorial journey through a landscape where body and nature are inseparably entangled.

“The theme of the bog was not a conscious choice,” says the artist. “It came to me gradually—like a landscape you begin to sink into.”
A move from Tallinn to a remote farmhouse in Lahemaa brought an unexpected encounter with moisture, decay, and a quiet resistance to human control. This marked the beginning of a long dialogue with the land—not as backdrop, but as a layered, remembering being.

The exhibition SOO asks: What does the land preserve? What does the human body leave behind? Where does care begin—and where does it end?

The installations, composed of vegetable-tanned leather, glass, wood remnants, rusted metal, photo-chemical processes and light, are not explanations but companions—memory-carriers that do not speak loudly, but echo, sink, and remain.

In addition to material-based works, the exhibition features two technological installations that invite visitors to engage with the environment through movement and presence. These works are built on contemporary visual technologies and spatial sensitivity, allowing the viewer to become part of the narrative in subtle, immersive ways.

Here, the bog is a non-binary space—not merely natural landscape, but a bodily and animated field where the personal and the archaeological, the visible and the forgotten, the real and the mythic converge.
SOO awakens differently at night—more quietly, more mysteriously. For the first time in Estonia, the gallery will open as a Night Museum, giving visitors the chance to experience this environment in its most atmospheric form.

Curator: Annika Haas
Exhibition dates: June 6 – September 27, 2025
Opening hours:
• June – August: Wed–Sat 20:00–02:00
• September: Wed–Sat 20:00–00:00

Alyona Movko-Mägi is an artist and designer living and working in Harjumaa. Her practice merges material archives, traditional craft, and contemporary technological inquiry.