Exhibition 'Life per se' at Tartu Art House

2017 02 09 — 2017 03 05 at Tartu Art House
Author Echo Gone Wrong
Published in Events in Estonia

Elu-per-se_plakat„Life per se” looks at the mundane and peculiar moments in the artists’ lives in a cognitive way rather than trying to exhaustively phrase them.
Although people tend to instinctively think that everything clearly defined and certain is safe and the unknown is frightening, there is nothing more dangerous than convenient confidence. Viewers are invited not to accept the illusion of normality, unambiguity and self-evidence and to adjust to the condition of relativity.
The studies of perception distrust ready-made explanations and believe truths to be rather found in the state of pure observation.

The cabinet of casual curiosities with a diffuse narrative takes an

i n t i m a t e ,

s l o w,

a m a z e d

look, sensing the presence of the perceiver in every step.
Here vulnerability becomes the greatest strength.

The artists wish to thank Eesti Kultuurkapital and Tartu Art House.