Last Friday was the opening of the solo exhibition by artist Liina Siib (CRF 2016), Politics of Paradise,at the Tallinn Art Hall. Her work pays acute attention to the minor narratives, which are usually overshadowed by the attention economy or accelerated lived experiences. Bringing together new and earlier works, the exhibition mediates intergenerational conversations between individual lives and complex gendered histories of privilege and power.
| Recently, Siib has looked at the ongoing regional economic migration through the eyes of Estonian women working in Finland. This contemporary polyphony of personal stories, desires and realities is reflected in the new installation Urban Symphony in E-minor III. The video and installation Augusta or Politics of Paradise focuses on the tragic fate of one woman in the local historical context. Both pieces continue Siib’s lengthy artistic investigations into the entangled political and habitual claims to space, voice and meaning. |
There is a special synergy of Civitella 2016 creation involved here, as a film called Orbs that will be shown, Anna Weidenholzer (CRF 2016) and Ross Gay (CRF 2016) also were creatively a part of. Thuridur Jónsdóttir (CRF 2016)’s music from her piece “Farvegur” has also been incorporated and accompanies Siib’s new film Haeska.