Uprising
Video, 4 min, objects, drawings
The group of works entitled “Uprising” are build around a video filmed during roof maintenance works performed on a building in Tallinn’s Pelgulinn district, where the artist lives and where she has been hosting her “Flo Kasearu House Museum” project since 2013. The metal taken off the roof was folded into plane figures, much like the DIY models folded by children from paper. The DIY and reuse technology metal planes as the main motif of the exhibition appear to be symbolic of military action, yet simultaneously representative of an exit strategy, the crossing of the country’s borders by air, immigration and emigration issues. The airspace - a perspective from which to assess one’s own position as both a liberating and a frightening idea. Also responding to the current political milieu of strained international relationships between Russia and the West.
Artist's Bio:
Flo Kasearu (1985) studied painting (2004–2008) and photography (2008–2013) at the Estonian Academy of Arts. In 2006–2007 she was an exchange student at the Rebecca Horn studio at Berlin University of the Arts, where she started doing performance and video art. Her works have been exhibited widely inside and outside of Estonia. She won Köler Prize in 2012 and established Flo Kasaru’s House Museum in 2013.