The opening of Ene-Liis Semper’s solo exhibition, featuring a large-scale spatial installation, will take place on the 4th of October at 7:30 PM at the Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia. The exhibition will run from the 5th of October to the 15th of December, 2024.
Ene-Liis Semper’s solo exhibition brings together a collection of layers and imageries in different rooms and floors of Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia taking into focus the current moment in time. The objects, sculptures, video works, sound and light design staged in various spaces of the museum form a whole that oscillates in the liminal space between the critical consciousness and the subconsciousness filled with rich allusions. According to the artist, the ambiguous fragments of memory that have found their way to the exhibition, are marked by tension and anticipation rather than by stillness.
Semper wishes to mirror the end of one process, or rather its transition, the breaking point. “There is a deep feeling that we have reached a moment where the skills and information acquired so far are no longer valid. Figuratively speaking, one can feel the cracking of the surface layer as if it were an eggshell. But what or who will come out of it, is not yet clear,” says Semper.
Ene-Liis Semper. Photo: Priit Simson
The current exhibition is the first solo exhibition of the theatre director, performance and video artist Ene-Liis Semper in over 13 years. Semper, who has worked for years as a theatre artist in both Estonian and European theatres, has based her body of work on the borderlands between theatrical and real, physical and emotional, cry and laughter. In the recent years, Semper has also worked as a professor at the Estonian Academy of Arts.
Light design of the exhibition by Aku Lahti, sound design by Jakob Juhkam.
Supporters: Cultural Endowment of Estonia, Estonian Ministry of Culture, City of Tallinn, Tallinn Creative Hub, Akzo Nobel, LED House, Floorin OÜ, OÜ Linda Kaks and Allan Kaldoja, Punch Club, Moe OÜ, Vorstiabi.
