Borderlessness can give rise to a synthesis of endless possibilities
Photo report: The exhibition “Borderlessness” at the Temnikova&Kasela gallery in Tallinn
Through August Temnikova&Kasela gallery in Tallin is hosting the work by Merike Estna, Jaime Lobato, Hasanly Armastajad.
“At the heart of the exhibition by Merike Estna, Jaime Lobato and Hasanlu Armastajad are borders, borderlessness and their multiple meanings. Borders can act as a separators, limiters and definer of worlds – they divide but also protect. Yet, borderlessness can give rise to a synthesis of endless possibilities where transition is soft and gradual. Hasanlu Armastajad is fascinated by the multiplicity of layers of time and space, soaring through the border zones of prehistory and the future as astral bodies, inspired by geological processes and archaeological finds, imagining a futuristic gaze bestowed upon our everyday present. What will remain of our civilisation, looking back at it from a distance of thousands of years? Will compressed car wrecks and the skeletons of embracing lovers, frozen in a kiss in the past millennia be seen as fossils? Estna and Lobato distil moments from the surrounding space-time, merging them into an intimate narrative, based on the dialogue between two artists and lovers – a symbiosis of ideas and creation. The exhibition is structured in dualities both in its theme and its materiality. Via performative and craft methods, the push and pull between the contradictions of private and public, eternal and evanescent, tenderness and danger, wakefulness and slumber, separation and togetherness, accelerated productivity and decelerated mineralisation are discovered. This is a biopoetical camino that started from isolation and separation, leading into togetherness in its polysemous multiplicity,” writes Maria Arusoo.
Arterritory.com presents the photo-report of the exhibtion.
Merike Estna and Jaime Lobato, Hasanlu Armastajad, "Borderlessness", exhibition view, 2021. Photo: Hedi Jaansoo
Merike Estna and Jaime Lobato, Hasanlu Armastajad, "Borderlessness", exhibition view, 2021. Photo: Hedi Jaansoo
Jaime Lobato. "Homo Faber" (detail) from the series "Estonian Winter", glazed ceramics, paintbrushes, 2021. Photo: Hedi Jaansoo
Hasanlu Armastajad. "La Cama de Piedra / The Bed of Stone", hand tufted wool rug, bed, 4 ceramic vessels, monosound, 2021. Photo: Hedi Jaansoo
Merike Estna. "Dinner For One", oil on glass, tin frame, 2021. Photo: Hedi Jaansoo
Merike Estna and Jaime Lobato, Hasanlu Armastajad, "Borderlessness", exhibition view, 2021. Photo: Hedi Jaansoo
Merike Estna and Jaime Lobato, Hasanlu Armastajad, "Borderlessness", exhibition view, video still, 2021. Photo: Hedi Jaansoo
Merike Estna and Jaime Lobato, Hasanlu Armastajad, "Borderlessness", exhibition view, 2021. Photo: Hedi Jaansoo
Jaime Lobato. "The imagination Telling a Story II", watercolor, pen plotter pen, 2021. Photo: Stanislav Stepaško
Merike Estna and Jaime Lobato, Hasanlu Armastajad, "Borderlessness", exhibition view, 2021. Photo: Hedi Jaansoo
Merike Estna. "I am an empty vessel", acrylic and oil on canvas, 2021. Photo: Hedi Jaansoo
Merike Estna. "The ghost, the past and the fence", acrylic and oil on canvas, 2021. Photo: Stanislav Stepaško
Jaime Lobato. "Prometheus" from the series "Estonian Winter", glazed ceramics, 2021. Photo: Hedi Jaansoo
Merike Estna and Jaime Lobato, Hasanlu Armastajad, "Borderlessness", exhibition view, 2021. Photo: Hedi Jaansoo
Hasanlu Armastajad. "La Cama de Piedra / The Bed of Stone" (detail), hand tufted wool rug, bed, 4 ceramic vessels, monosound, 2021. Photo: Hedi Jaansoo
Merike Estna and Jaime Lobato, Hasanlu Armastajad, "Borderlessness", exhibition view, 2021. Photo: Hedi Jaansoo
Jaime Lobato. "Serendipity", watercolor, pen plotter pen, 2021. Photo: Stanislav Stepaško
Hasanlu Armastajad. "Rot", pressed cars, 2021. Photo: Hedi Jaansoo
Hasanlu Armastajad. "Rot", installation vew, pressed cars, 2021. Photo: Hedi Jaansoo
