LIIS LILLO
INNER CABIN

A modest structure built on a human scale, the cabin is at the heart of this exhibition. In symbiosis with its environment, it becomes a space where inside and outside are reconciled. Here, the focus is on porous boundaries: blurring the lines between interior and exterior, allowing the sedentary world to coexist with diverse landscapes.
Noble materials and ordinary or recycled materials mingle without hierarchy, as if the exterior were slipping into the depths of intimacy. The cabin then becomes an organism, a breathing shelter, that welcomes our vulnerability as much as it protects us.
Like the fauna and flora that adapt to their environment to survive, it is about becoming one with what surrounds us. Clothing, like the dwelling, forms a second skin, a place of possible resilience.
Liis Lillo | artist
Liis Lillo, born in 1987 in Tartu, Estonia, graduated from the Higher Institute of Arts and Design in Toulouse (2013) and also trained at the National School of Photography in Arles (2023-2024). Her practice, situated at the intersection of photography and installation, is based on an in situ approach.
Recently, her work has been featured in two solo exhibitions: "Y être, y rester" (To Be There, To Stay There), as part of Présence(s) Photographie (Ardèche), and "Faire corps avec" (Becoming One With), at the Bellegarde Cultural Center in Toulouse.
Opening Wednesday July 8th 6-9 PM
artist's performance 7 PM
exhibition July 6-12 th, 2026, 2-8 PM

Liis Lillo's work can be described as multimedia; it is extremely well-crafted, existing at the intersection of photography, installation, and performance. The artist's central concerns revolve around the concept of inhabiting: inhabiting a world that has become hostile, or inhabiting one's own body, which has become fragile. Catastrophe, whether climatic or social, is never far away, yet this resembles a kind of basic and strange ritual.
The subject matter is ambitious, even if the form is gentle and simple. The frozen lake is delighted to host this young Estonian artist of international renown.
Richard Petit / curator


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