Tallinn Light Festival, Hirvepark, Tallinn, 2006 Installation Estonian word ‘minevik’ corresponds in translation to English word ‘past’ that is pronounced similarly to an Estonian word ‘paast’ which has a completely different meaning. Still it is quite unusual that these two words can be tightly linked to one another in semiotic sense – paast (fasting) is past-like and past is fasting-like (paastuline). Past holds in itself similarly to paast the concentration of something that has already been consumed and experienced; a situation where the purification process occurs and only the essential is preserved. However at one point the spatial absoluteness
Manchester, England, 1997 Urban space project Imprints that change places on the facades of the buildings, on the pavements, on the objects of cityscape. Everything stands in place in the city. Buildings do not meet buildings. Streets do not gather for joint events. We just helped a bit.
Amandus Adamson’s House Museum, Paldiski 2011 Metal waste What did we have amid our village? We had a swing amid the village What more did we have amid our village? There was a forest amid our village What was there amid the forest? There was a sea amid the forest What was there amid the sea? The lake was there amid the sea What was there amid the lake? The well was there amid the lake What was there amid the well? The pillar was there in the middle of the well What was there on top of the
Kanut garden, Tallinn, 2013 Light installation Wall, mirror, laser Lightness and darkness equals Open and Hidden. Blazing lightness can be more dazzling than darkness. Darkness offers plenty of possibilities, yet in the presence of light all the world is known and evident. Black Hole, the embodiment of infinite darkness, transforms everything into something else and therefore only mirror knows what it reflects in the dark.
Kuressaare Castle, Saaremaa, 2012.Exhibition of small forms, Tartu, 2013.Poster of the exhibition (pdf)Sound installation, plaster. Installation focuses on relationships between people; on the conscious and non-conscious roles. The entire exhibition is resolved paradoxically being inspired by dog body postures during training and eye contact. Sound has important part in this installation.Obedience and the feeling of joy when the owner or the person we want to be liked by pays us attention, approves us and plays with us…. Every single good gesture gives us reason for even greater affection. We stay on-call for the dearly respected ready to rush where
A joint project of Estonian and Finnish artists, Viljandi, 2011 Arteground reflects on an Estonian-Finnish art symposium of a same name that took place in 2011. During the symposium artists engaged in interactive discussions on the subject of environmental art. Is environmental made of trash or is it producing trash? Art, water and ecology. Community + art = community-based art? The symbolism of water in art.