The exhibitions of the project Rooms in Rhymes open on the 4th of April at EKKM (Põhja pst 35, Tallinn).
From 4 April, the exhibitions of the collaborative project Rooms in Rhymes [1] will start to open. Each week a new exhibition by one of the seven curators replaces another on one of the museum floors, forming an exhibitionary poem, an experiment in spatial poetry and curatorial collaboration. The openings are on 4, 11, 17 and 25 April, as well as 2 and 9 May.
The exhibition cycle experiments with curating as a form of poetic, performative and collective practice. It seeks to enhance dialogue in visual art projects and invite a plurality of curatorial approaches to the museum. The practice of EKKM’s only in-house curator, Evelyn Raudsepp, has been previously characterised by performative curating and playfulness in the exhibition formats. This time, she invited an extended group of curators to join her, including team members who usually carry out different roles at the museum, as well as creatives who have previously worked with EKKM: Anita Kodanik, Brigit Arop, Johannes Luik, Laura De Jaeger, Laura Linsi and Marten Esko. The exhibition will feature more than 25 artists, both local and international.
In search of an aesthetic form for this collaboration, the exhibitions start to unfold line by line as a poem. The curated fragments are not necessarily expected to rhyme, yet the poetic tension invites one to look for the resonance between them, creating space for potential f(r)iction. Rooms in Rhymes makes use of the character of the museum building: three floors rhythmise each author’s phrases, passages create pauses, staircases cuts. When finishing the path, ascending and reversing the exhibition visit, new connections will arise, embracing the dynamics of delayed meanings and disordered attention.
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