Performative exhibition by Angela Maasalu at Vaal gallery, Tallinn

2017 01 11 — 2017 01 26
Author Echo Gone Wrong
Published in Events in Estonia

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With a performative project called “Home II” Angela Maasalu continues discussing the topic of personal space, following a project of building a doll’s house called “Home I” at Holdrons Arcade, London. In addition to that, the exhibition at Vaal gallery aims to ask questions about the possibilities for a young artist to establish and authorize oneself in an institutional white cube space. Home as a safe and comfortable environment versus the tensions and struggles of intimate relationships within it, private versus public space, goals and expectations versus actual opportunities are the subjects that the artist is mainly working with.

During the first half of this performative exhibition Angela Maasalu will begin with an empty space and start to build herself a house. It will be a process of making decisions and changing one’s mind again. The house will become the artist’s personal project space – a gallery within a gallery. Once the house is finished, she will also be exhibiting her paintings in it. The house will be a second home with its own rules – or on the contrary – freedom. The gallery will be open throughout the building process and for two weeks after the building has been finished. The artist will also be doing occasional live videos of the process on Facebook (see notifications!).

26th of January – the building process has come to an end!
Party + artist talk starting at 6 p.m.

Angela Maasalu (1990) is an Estonian painter living and working in London. Her work mainly involves exploring the topics of her own and her generation’s (often called millennials) struggles and relations with the issues of the contemporary society in general. Her work is a diary-like visual biography, where symbolic motifs represent various hidden meanings such as mountain having the meaning of looking for certainty and reaching one’s goals, house meaning love and security (or the lack of it) – all continuing the same linear series with slowly changing and added details. Dreamy pastel colours hiding the bleak reality, covering up the ugly facade. Angela Maasalu holds a BA from the University of Tartu, MA from the Estonian Academy of Arts and has also completed a course at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design.