Hot Prefontal Cortex

A celebration of life magnified under the microscope and our mysterious relationship with nature in a space that is constantly evolving.

Working with paint, plaster, resin, organza, space, and light, Finnish artist Alma Heikkilä draws inspiration for her works from walking through ancient boreal forests and imagining the infinite processes occurring on the ground, beneath the Earth's surface, and within the dark, soft tunnels of our bodies.

“I lay on the ground imagining that the life of the soil beneath me was slowly sifting through my body. Food passes through my body, my colon. Food that passes through the intestines. Neatly ordered piles of excrement left in our wake. The soft, flexible tunnels within our bodies slowly twisting around each other. We reaching towards the rhizomes of the Earth, or they reaching towards us.” — Alma Heikkilä.