Competences & skills

Jaan Poska memorial in Kadriorg

2016

Kadriorg, Tallinn, 2016 Architects who won the memorial design competition: Pille Noole, Üllar Ambos, and Ioannis Lykouras. In 2015, Elo Liiv was chosen to execute the sculptural part of the Jaan Poska memorial. Jaan Poska was the mayor of Tallinn, the foreign minister of the Republic of Estonia and the head of the Estonian delegation for peace negotiations with Soviet Russia. The sculpture depicts Poska walking home from work in Kadriorg with a briefcase under his arm. The main idea is to depict Poska’s life as a journey and his figure as true to life, simple and natural. Looking to

Ornamental stubbornness

2014

Exhibition ‘Ornamental’ in Tallinn Art Hall, 2014. Kinetic object, metal, welding. Multidimensionality of the world, mental maze of connections, ornamental sequence of recurrences. Again and again indigenous folklore rises from the ashes like a tilting doll. Its patterns or perhaps letters emerge to human mind from the unspeakable depths and the vast expanses of space regardless of miscellaneous wars, genocide, and self-inflicted fashion of communities. Those letters draw people back to the forest, sanctuaries, to restoring grandparents’ farmsteads, to archives and libraries seeking for old folklore texts. The emergence of these letters is not predictable nor directed; they are

Train Beat

2012

International art train ‘Cosmic Underground’ on the way from Tallinn to Guimaraes, 2012 Video, sound, and light installation: Elo Liiv Concept: Elo Liiv, Eva Tallo Dream of freedom is like a cosmic underground from one reality to another. Its beat is endless commuting between reminiscences and dreams. Back and forth without stopping; merely for a moment to switch the tracks. One dreams of freedom constantly whether enchained or not. Those who live in suffering have faith and vision statement so sincere and strong, they are saved only by memories and dreams, heading to the indefiniteness. Free ones suffer from

The three peaks

1995

Högakusten, Sweden,1995 Landscape art project on three mountains On the layout scheme the three mountains in North-Sweden form the three vertices of a triangle: The world – the ritual – the sage. The mountain symbolizing the world is the highest mountain in the district. It is located on the shore of a big lake and lies in such remote place where even footprints left on the moss seem redundant. The mountain symbolizing the rites became a rite place. A giant chair together with the spiral, gateway, and sound stood on the top of the mountain. The mountain symbolizing the

The Connection

2012

Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn, 2012. Interactive light installation. Co-authors: Eva Tallo, Priit Tiimus. Interactive light art project connects visitors of the exhibition virtually with the artists’ sub-consciousness and inner world. This occurs through the help of line, line tracking, and imitation; it places the author on the one side of the screen/the sheet and the viewer/the imitator on the other. There takes place the graphic transmission from the artist to viewer. They are different yet connected; one is the initiator the other the imitator… however they are equal in front of the blank sheet of paper; equal before the

Chamber of the world

2001

Kuressaare castle, Saaremaa, 2001 Land art Symposium “Open Circle” Up on the wall of Kuressaare castle. On the highest point above… The chamber of indigenous people with liberating prayers and gifts. For those whose spirits and bodies were trampled down under the feet of foreign invaders. So we would not forget the freedom.

Direction I

2015

Tallinn Art Hall, 2015 video-installation with sculpture and mapping Mapping on three dimensional object. First version.