Bita Razavi’s ongoing project Museum of Baltic Remont is composed of documentation of what may appear to be a mundane task. Over the last three years, she has been renovating an abandoned house in the Estonian countryside and an apartment in Tartu.
Photo documentation of the exhibition by EJTECH: All direction is curved, all motion is spiral at Easttopics Budapest.
The works of Anna Solal bring into play an almost primitive system of figuration. Or more precisely: primordial. That is to say that they flatten all of the intrinsic categories that normally equip our gaze, which are fundamentally oriented by their relationship to the real.
“What clearer evidendnce could we have about the different formation of these rocks, and the long interval which separated their formation, had we actually seen them emerging from the bosom of the deep?... The mind seemed to grow giddy by looking so far into the abyss of time.” With its paradoxical combination of scientific and lyric attitude, this quotation from the work of James Hutton perfectly represents the creative approach of the Finnish artist Hanna Råst (1986).
Filip Dvořák and Martin Kolarov's Age Of No Heroes exhibition at FAVU Gallery in Brno.
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