There is an infamous burger place in Nõmme called Hiiu Grill. Although this place looks a bit shabby, it has played a huge role in the character development of me and many of my friends. Hiiu Grill was the meeting place where most of the stories started and ended. Over the years I’ve spent countless …
I am most interested in why people remember certain events or moments better compared to others. Also historic variations in contemporary time and how has the collective past affected the individualistic present. My work is inspired by a winged altarpiece and I have built my own triptych which is made up of my personal memories. …
The term “buff” is used for any graffiti removal technique, be it overpainting or washing off. I am interested in how removing inappropriate graffiti from the city maintenance perspective can be seen as a separate gesture and as a dialogue between the city authorities and the street artists. In my work, I borrow the techniques …
According to Judith Butler, gender and its expression is an everyday performance. I use my body as a stage for this social performance and photography as a medium for expressing its performativity. The work is inspired by Claude Cahun’s self-portraits, made almost a hundred years ago, which flirt with androgyny, kitsch and identity.
Allowing my hand to guide me, I´ve set out on a quest to play through different possibilities of natural landscapes and forms. This process centered work is created with the intention to give back simplified physical form to values that I have picked up from the lands’ own gentle and courageous expressions of the innate …
The starting point of the work is the vulnerability of man. Both indirectly and directly. A blanket is one of the most intimate objects that accompanies a person from birth to the last moments of life. A blanket gives cover, but not solely. Symbolising warmth, closeness, nudity and a sense of security, the blanket offers …
Through this work I seek alternative forms for the physical body, exploring the fears and expectations associated with existence. Inspired by experience with extreme emotions, I explore collective existence in the present and in the future with this work. The centre of the work is an alien compound together from a 3D model found from …
We buy more things if they are in abundance. The psychology of abundance, characterised by the inability to save or the lack of awareness that resources are finite, contributes to the emergence of scarcity. When we experience abundance, for example, we often cannot save money or time. This, in turn, creates a scarcity of resources, …
“taig” is a series of collages through which I have attempted to visualise the beliefs of ancient Estonians on protective magic and its practice. The need for protection and safety has been important among both our ancestors and contemporary humans – both have employed rituals, word magic, glyph magic or objects to ward off misfortunes, …
Flight draws on two photo books as its sources of inspiration. Ravens (Karasu in Japanese) by Masahisa Fukase is hailed as a masterwork of Japanese photo art and can be considered one man’s journey on the path of self-discovery, raising questions on the true self. Murder, a photo book by the Canadian photo artist Guillaume …