“So, when I came to write science-fiction novels, I came lugging this great heavy sack of stuff, my carrier bag full of wimps and klutzes, and tiny grains of things smaller than a mustard seed, and intricately woven nets which when laboriously unknotted are seen to contain one blue pebble, an imperturbably functioning chronometer telling the time on another world, and a mouse’s skull; full of beginnings without ends, of initiations, of losses, of transformations and translations, and far more tricks than conflicts, far fewer triumphs than snares and delusions; full of space ships that get stuck, missions that fail, and people who don’t understand. I said it was hard to make a gripping tale of how we wrested the wild oats from their husks, I didn’t say it was impossible. Who ever said writing a novel was easy?” – Ursula K. Le Guin, The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction
Ventspace Projektiruum, the gallery space held by students of Eesti Kunstiakadeemia in central Talinn, presents “it’s like the earth it is our body it is our bed”, a solo exhibition by Sara Blosseville. The exhibition marks Sara Blosseville’s first solo exhibition in Estonia, and features sculptures exploring the material world as a fecund humus at different states of growth and decomposition, where all the bodies and objects are considered as holders of life energy, whether it’s a juicy apple fresh from the tree or an old bucket made of plastic, which is an underground agglomerate of petrified energy of the sun. An altar for bovine friends, a model of our solar system, a petrified heart-shaped deathbed, a puddle of souvenirs containing images from summer, and a teen refuge burrow filled with images of the earth and lucky charms… This exhibition investigates the similarities and paradoxes between the process of natural and artistic creation by presenting works that are made only of found organic items and second-hand synthetic materials: they are the fruitful result of wanderings around forests, wastelands and abandoned farms as a season-specific ensemble.
Title: it’s like the earth it is our body it is our bed
Artist: Sara Blosseville
Dates: 17.11.2022-21.11.2022
Location: Vent Space, Talinn, Estonia
Photography: Vent Space