Sigrid Viir will opened personal exhibition False Vacationers Workcation Travels in Draakon gallery on September 21st, 2021. Exhibition will be on until October 9, 2021.
Sigrid Viir’s current exhibition False Vacationers Workcation Travels serves as a conceptual continuation of the artist’s personal exhibition recently held in the Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia (EKKM) where the artist focused on the subject of blurring the borders between work and vacation in contemporary society.
The border between work and leisure time seems to become increasingly vague – this is also clearly proved by the use of the following neologisms such as workcation (also written as workation; work+vacation), bleisure (business+leisure), or bizcation (business+vacation) in English-speaking environments. According to George Lakoff and Mark Johnson (“Metaphors We Live By”, translated into Estonian and published by Tallinn University Press, 2011), the metaphors of the resources of work and time change the way we understood the concept of leisure time – and thus, leisure time is becoming something very similar to work.
Work isn’t a rabbit that will run away!
An unemployed rabbit doesn’t need to turn tail!
Mountain of work
Hours for what we will
Mountains of work
An hour for what we will
A mountain for what we will
Hours of work
Mountains of will
An hour of work
What we will of work
Mountain of hours
Hours of work for mountains we will
We will work for mountains of will
We will hours of work
We will hours for what we will
Sigrid Viir (b. 1979) is a photo and installation artist living and working in Tallinn. Viir has studied cultural theory in the Estonian Institute of Humanities and graduated from the department of photography at the Estonian Academy of Arts. In her artistic practice, Sigrid Viir is interested in the daily aspects of human existence and the related maze of social agreements, the borderland between the totality of work and personal leisure time as well as the questions of visual language. Viir is one of the three members of artists’ collective Visible Solutions LLC. She has participated in numerous exhibitions in Estonia and abroad. Viir has received the Young Artist Prize (2009); she was the nominee of art award Köler Prize 2011 and taken part in the international exhibition project Manifesta 9 with Visible Solutions LLC (2012). Viir has received twice the annual award for contributions in visual and applied arts (2013, 2019).
The artist expresses her gratitude to: Cultural Endowment of Estonia, Villem Säre, Kristiina Hansen.
Exhibitions in Draakon gallery are supported by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia,
Estonian Ministry of Culture and Liviko Ltd.
Exhibition by Sigrid Viir
Title: False Vacationers Workcation Travels
Open: 21.09.-09.10.2021
Draakon Gallery, Pikk 18, Tallinn.
Mon-Fri 11.00-18.00, Sat 11.00-17.00
Photos by Anna Mari Liivrand
