Kaalukausid (weighing bowls), 2024

Blown glass, iron, rope, 16.5 m ² installation

Master Graduation Work: Contemporary Art, Estonian Academy of Art

Kaalukausid Eng. Weighing Bowls, was exhibited at TASE 24 the Estonian Academy of Art graduation show at Tallinn Art Hall. The work is a result of a study into material (in)compatibilty as a reflection of personal, and by extension society's relationship to our environment. Stemming from my own multi-national and multi-religious framework the material-specific installation and sculpture, engage the senses to highlight tension, fragility, and coexistence.

Investigating how identity shapes and reshapes our interactions with objects, I am interested in how art can help us overcome isolation by meeting ourselves and others within materials. In the face of a divided world that is becoming increasingly more polarised, the viewer is invited to observe how two inherently different objects can coexist and enhance each other thus encouraging constructive dialogue and reflexivity. Points of departure for the work are the manifestations of selfhood, discovery and reflexivity through engagement with materiality.