On Thursday, 7 August at 6 PM, the exhibition Contemplated Distances by artists Johanna Adojaan, Paul Kuimet and Krista Mölder will be opened at FOKU gallery (Väike-Karja 10, Tallinn).
The exhibition Contemplated Distances is a visual poetic mapping of natural, mediated and personally experienced landscapes, distances and closenesses. The common threads connecting the works of the three artists are quiet frames, sensitivity to detail, surfaces and currents underneath or behind; vibrations between the visible and the invisible, looking and observing.
In Krista Mölder’s photo series, we encounter landscapes, air, birds, butterflies and airplanes again and again. On the one hand, Mölder’s frames are almost weightless, frozen in time and full of emptiness and silence, on the other hand, framed with extreme precision and under the control of the artist’s incredibly sensitive and sharp gaze. Using the possibilities and limitations of analog techniques, Paul Kuimet has created a series, a kind of static narrative, where different (emotional) states — and the shifts between them — exist as if simultaneously. In her especially delicate aesthetics, Johanna Adojaan reflects on luck and magical thinking. Although today’s world is disenchanted and guided by rationality and pragmatism — or perhaps precicely because of it? — magical thinking will never disappear, the artist believes.
The exhibition will remain open until 20 September, 2025.
Johanna Adojaan (b. 1996) is inspired by abstract and magical thinking, intimate aspects of human experience, and biological and social drives of human behavior. She holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Fine Art Photography from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp. Adojaan works as a photographer, graphic designer, illustrator, second-hand treasure dealer and a ceramic artist.
Johanna Adojaan ‘Untitled’, from the series ‘Field Notes on Fleeting Luck’ (2021)
Paul Kuimet (b. 1984) works with photography, 16 mm film, and installation comprising of these media. Although his work is often described by a technological way of seeing, his practice places emphasis on the movement and presence of the beholder in the exhibition space. Since 2013, his work has been interested in modernist forms. In his latest works he has concentrated not so much on the forms of modernism, but on its materials, such as steel and glass, and their relationship to the development of modern capitalism since the mid-nineteenth century.
Krista Mölder (b. 1972) focuses on universalized space and viewer experience or, to be more specific, on the transference of a personal (and constructed) viewer experience through which the viewer has a chance to identify with the artist’s view and frame of mind. Her melancholic series often rely on the active position of viewers, whilst her site-specific exhibitions take her interest in spatial context beyond the content of the photographs themselves.
Krista Mölder. From the series ‘Inter-Space’ (2016)
FOKU gallery is run by the Estonian Union of Photography Artists (FOKU). The gallery’s partner is Rüki gallery.
Supporter:
Cultural Endowment of Estonia
Technical support:
Karel Koplimets
Thanks to:
Artproof, ArtSmart, Kristiina Hansen, Mikk Heinsoo, Irina Korzjukova, Temnikova & Kasela galerii
FOKU gallery
Väike-Karja 10, Tallinn
Thu—Sat 12—18
And by appointment
