Senja Penttilä Sollén

Below the Horizon, 2025
Installation with soundscape, epoxy and cyanotype prints on glass

Senja Penttilä Sollén works primarily with analogue photography, video, and sculptural materials such as wax, clay, wood and glass. Her practice explores memory, belonging and the passage of time, often through poetic interpretations of personal landscapes. Rooted in a curiosity about her own past, her work examines how memories shift and fragment over time, and how places are reshaped both by time itself and by the way we remember them.

Nature plays a central role in her practice, appearing as both subject and refuge. In her work, the human body merges with the landscape, blurring the boundary between inner world and outer terrain. The installation at Bildmuseet reflects on a forest from the artist’s childhood—a place that offered sanctuary from domestic instability and became her first experience of peace. Now lost to time, it lives on as a constellation of memory fragments, shaped as much by absence as by presence.

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Interview with Senja Penttilä Sollén

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