Ingrid Helena Pajo’s exhibition “Butterfly’s flight is a meander” will be open at Keskpuur on Saturday, May 10th, h 13.00. Exhibition will remain open until 7th of June and can be visited every day 9.00–15.00. Gallery is located at Keskturg hall second floor, Keldrimäe 9, Tallinn.
The first butterflies seen in spring are symbolic – they predict the course of summer. This year I saw three small tortoiseshells circling around each other. Around the same time, I was listening to a radio show about the 17th-18th century still life painter Rachel Ruysch. With her allegorical vanitas paintings in my mind, I started to notice butterfly forms again, this time on the facades of Tallinn houses, reliefs, window grilles and so on. Reminders of the transience of life can be found everywhere. Vanitas is present both in the soon-to-be-changing Keskturg and in my studio, where moths announce the non-permanence of my things. In the exhibition “Butterfly’s flight is a meander” an attempt to reconcile, but also a little resistance, are woven into silk-paintings, a tapestry and some nets.
