KUMU, Tallinn
8.6.-30.9.12
Installations where light is crucial / installations telling a story
These two exhibitions are separate in theme and works, but are almost floating into each other. This is a strange choice, as each of these two could just as well work alone. Anyway, both exhibitions are wonderful.
Speed of Darkness
Karel Koplimets: Suburbs of Fear
The first work in the exhibition is in two parts. One is showing surveillance camera shots from a dark, slightly disturbing suburb. There are cars moving in the background, lights in some windows, and no visible people, but dark, dark shadows.
Karel Koplimets: Suburbs of Fear
Then it turns out that all scenes are shot right now in this model of a suburb area. What I considered a dangerous area is really just a tiny doll model. What a surprise, what a relief!
Paula Lehtonen: Multiverse Now!
This animation drags me in, sucking me in like the worm hole of "2001: A Space Odyssey".
Anna Hyrkkänen: Gleam
Wonderful features are created as the lamp lights up the mess of transparent plates, the transparent becomes stable, until the lamp starts moving and the shadows move accordingly.
Timo Toots: Electron
A task for the visitor: Push the correct buttons to achieve light in the bulb. Here you become the master of power of all Tallinn, and by your pushes of buttons you decide which district will get power or not. If you make the right choices, the light bulb will (probably) light up.
Kristi Kongi: I Haven't Moved My Head From the Pillow
Playing with colours and light, and with this the exhibiton seems to end and you walk into the other one.
Other Stories
Ivar Veermäe: IT/The Future is Bright
A makeshift tent for long-time protesters of "Occupy ..." or gear for settlement in a refugee camp. Made by simple material, this can be made anywhere.
Kristiina Hansen & Johannes Säre: Little House in the Periphery
A tiny, tiny house is reflected onto itself.
Kristiina Hansen & Ånond Versto: Up the Down Stairs + Kristiina Hansen & Johannes Säre: A Wall Without a Work of Art
Playing tricks with your mind: And upside down staircase with carpet. And an installation of a lamp with a power cord and a photo of the installation, but the photo does not include the photo itself. That would be impossible, wouldn't it? So only the photo is the artwork, not the installation, according to the title "Wall Without a Work of Art"?
Liina Siib: Carcere. Prison
A wonderful installation of three videos showing the inside of an old, abandoned factory building. As the camera turns around and dives up and down, it feels like being inside a giant model of a M.C. Escher drawing.
