Reeli K\u00f5iv, curator of the exhibition:<\/p>\n
Tiina Sarapu\u2019s exhibition is her personal look into the recent history of Estonian agriculture. Her parents and her brother are still farmers in the roundabouts of P\u00e4rnu keeping in working order an old mill and a grain dryer from the Soviet period. With her work Tiina Sarapu raises that thematic range higher above the everyday sphere in her aesthetically extraordinary subtle way, glorifying the beauty of simple and practical toil.<\/p>\n
How to tell the story of agriculture through the glass art? In what way to visualize the feeling of security created by the cyclic seeding and harvesting grain, the substantial eternity of getting bread on your table in a traditional way; how to share the frail fragments of memory, the poetics of dear places and modes of living with the visitor?<\/p>\n
Tiina Sarapu uses the special qualities of glass \u2013 transparency, reflectiveness, fragility \u2013 to forward her message, expressing it through an installation filling the whole room. On a long dark surface as if on a freshly ploughed field multilayered objects are standing. Photos, texts, and drawings engraved and sandblasted on glass panels bended in a hot kiln tell us the agricultural history of the artist\u2019s family. There is a handwritten page of mother\u2019s field book and the recipe of baking bread told by her, the road to and the interior of the mill, its corn bunkers and transporters; in some works golden grain gushes out of the harvester tube, on another grandma\u2019s loaves of bread are ready for baking.<\/p>\n
In the layers of the glass sheets the cultural layers of memory, stratified periods of time seem to have become material. Different pictures are combined together and are at the same time separate, transparent, seen through one another, reflecting one another \u2013 they are there simultaneously for the visitor and as the memorial pictures of the artist.\u00a0\u00a0 At the same time the movement of light can change the image and something seen in a momentary flash of light vanishes into inexistence the next moment.<\/p>\n
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The exhibition took place at the Estonian Agricultural Museum, 17.02\u201319.08.2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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