ENG//
Belliisi Seenemaa is an Estonian artist working with textiles, photography, and installation. Her practice often uses primal, natural materials and traditional, nature-based techniques. Belliisis current work explores grief and memories through photography.
Seenemaa is interested in capturing emotions and sensory experiences through materiality. And experimenting with natural processes and techniques.
In her earlier practice, Seenemaa was exploring meanings in symbolism and ritual objects.
Seenemaa has studied textile design at Pallas University of Applied Sciences & decoration and styling at Tartu Art School. She has furthered her studies in Berlin, focusing on e-textiles and the integration of technology with traditional textile practices. In France, she studied archaic leather working techniques and the making of ritual objects. And in Estonia, she has researched and practised traditional methods of processing plant-based fibres and natural dyes.
Alongside her formal art education, she has studied transpersonal psychology and hypnotherapy and is trained as a breathwork therapist. These fields support her interest in perception, emotional states, embodied experience, and the relationship between the material and the intangible.
EST//
Belliisi Seenemaa on Eesti kunstnik, kes töötab tekstiili, fotograafia ja installatiivse kunstiga. Kasutades enamjaolt primaarseid, looduslike tehnikaid ja materjale.
Seenemaa huviks on emotsiooni ja tajude tabamine läbi materjali. Ning eksperimenteerimine looduslike tehnikatega. Belliisi käesolev projekt on uurida leina ja mälestusi läbi fotograafia.
Eelnevatel aastatel on Seenemaa huviks olnud sümbolism, rituaalsed teemad ja esemed.
Belliisi Seenemaa on õppinud Kõrgemas Kunstikoolis Pallas tekstiili ja Tartu Kunstikoolis dekoraator-stilisti erialal. Täiendanud end Berliinis e-tekstiilide ja tehnoloogiate kombineerimise valdkonnas, õppinud Prantsusmaal arhailisi nahakunsti võtteid ja rituaalsete esemete valmistamist. Ning Eestis uurinud ja praktiseerinud taimsete kiudude ja värvide traditsioonilisi töötlemisviise.
Kunstiharidusele täiendavalt on Seenemaa õppinud ka transpersonaalset psühholoogiat ja hüpnoteraapiat, ning hingamisterapeudiks.