Estonian Contemporary Art Museum (EKKM), Tallinn, Estonia
Sept 29 – Nov 4, 2018
“How to: Live: Virtual Biographies”, exhibition and collaboration between artists Ingrid Allik, Dre Britton and Laura Põld, was curated by Marika Agu.
“How to live? Three artists – Ingrid Allik (b. 1958), Dre Britton (b. 1991) and Laura Põld (b. 1984) – answer this question by presenting objects inspired from domestic spaces and their personal lives. The artists propose a room which is suitable for sustaining and supporting an individual, and what such a space might consist of. It’s precisely the objects contained within the room (even if they are artworks themselves) that help us reconstruct ways of living and imaginary or specific activities, and bring to light details from their biographies. In part, the objects on display at this group exhibition pretend to proceed from a utilitarian function, but they fail in this. As they are exhibited in a museum, they are an amplified reference point to something virtual– potential, imagined – and thus, as objects, anything but practical. In the exhibition, which takes up two rooms on the ground floor of the Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia (EKKM), the work of each artist is derived from an incremental scale of measurement, thus entering into a symbiotic relationship with their formal composition.” – Marika Agu
Photos by Alan Proosa
Center: Dre Britton. DGR Import. 2018 Found furniture, opaque plexiglass.
Right: Dre Britton. L V L. 2018 Found wooden panels, clear plexiglass.
Back: Laura Põld. Layout of the year. 2018 Yarn, eight canvases.
Left: Laura Põld. Layout of the Year. 2018 Yarn, eight canvases.
Center: Dre Britton. GDR Import. 2018 Found furniture, opaque plexiglass.
Right: Dre Britton. L V L. 2018 Found wooden panels, clear plexiglass.
Left wall: Ingrid Allik. Books. 2018 Red brick clay, terra sigillata.
Center: Dre Britton. GDR Import. 2018 Found furniture, opaque plexiglass.
Back: Laura Põld. Layout of the Year. 2018 Yarn, eight canvases.
Right: Ingrid Allik. Hybrid. 2018 Ceramics, plywood, hair extensions, surveillance camera, lamp.
Left: Laura Põld. Layout of the Year. 2018 Yarn, eight canvases.
Right: Ingrid Allik. Hybrid. 2018 Ceramics, plywood, hair extensions, surveillance camera, lamp.
Laura Põld. Layout of the Year. 2018 Yarn, eight canvases.
Laura Põld. Measures of Emptiness. 2018 269 meters of hollow steel pipe.
Left: Ingrid Allik. Unattainable Miracle. 2018 Ceramics, raku ware.
Center: Ingrid Allik. Nest. 2018 Mud brick, textile
Right: Dre Britton. No Support. 2018 Wood, opaque and clear plexiglass.
Laura Põld. Measures of Emptiness (detail). 2018 Steel
Laura Põld. Guest 1, Guest 2. 2017 Yarn, canvas
Ingrid Allik. On the Threshold. 2018 Japanese woman’s indoor footware, ceramics, wood, textile, lightbulb
Laura Põld. Measures of Emptiness (detail). 2018 Steel
Laura Põld. Object of Attachment. 2018 Eartheneware
Magazine “Kunst ja Kodu” (“Art and Home”) 1/1980 Publishing house “Kunst”, Tallinn.
Magazine “Kaunis kodu” (“Beautiful Home”), 1935, no.1 Published by Estonian Academic Artists’ Unit.
Magazine “Taluperenaine” (“Homekeeper”), 1929, no.5 Published by Academic Agricultural Association, Tartu.