“Disposable Gloves Guide”\u00a0is Merike Estna\u2019s first solo presentation in Latvia. The exhibition elaborates on a set of themes that have been present in the artist\u2019s recent practice. In her performative paintings and multimedia works in textile, clothing and ceramics, Estna is contemplating on the technology led conversions in contemporary lifestyle, which inevitably contribute to reshaping the social habits of human life. In a society that praises the convenience of automatization, we undergo a restless acceleration that is drifting today\u2019s society away from the traditional labor. \u00a0Disposable Gloves Guide questions the future of labor and unfolds the contemporary social concerns we might be facing the end of the world as we know it. The exhibition\u00a0is a collection combining a selection of her recent works and\u00a0new productions\u00a0created for\u00a0the exhibition at Kim?. The\u00a0later are continuing a narrative\u00a0Estna began deciphering\u00a0during the Baltic Triennial 13 in Tallinn. They depict\u00a0creatures\u00a0essential both\u00a0to\u00a0the\u00a0ecosystem\u00a0and\u00a0the human kind.\u00a0The pit of snakes in her work suggests the change for better or worse-like snake sheds its skin to persistently renew, the world will\u00a0have to\u00a0regenerate\u00a0too. The opening night was complemented by Merike Estna\u2019s performance \u00a0Red Herring.\u00a0For the performance, the audience were served artist-crafted potions asinvitation to drink and converse.<\/p>\n
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As described by curator\u00a0Maria Arusoo \u201cRed Herring” engages painting as a stage for human interaction. Merike Estna\u2019s practice incorporates what she calls\u00a0performative paintings with allusions to the digital, the nostalgic, and a romantic reverance for parts of human existence that are mutating, melting or slipping away. Inspired by Aleksandr Pushkin\u2019s \u00a0A Feast In The Time Of Plague, Estna plays with our ideas of Romantic forms of representation and social space.<\/p>\n
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Merike Estna<\/u> (born in Estonia 1980) lives and works in Tallinn, Estonia. She has graduated from the Estonian Academy of Arts with a Bachelor\u2019s degree in painting and from the Goldsmiths College, University of London, in 2009 with the Master\u2019s degree in art practice. Her performative work has\u00a0been exhibited at Chart, Kopenhagen, Performa 17 and Art in General, NYC, and Kiasma, Helsinki.\u00a0Her solo exhibitions have been exhibited at Kunstraum, London, Karen Huber Gallery, Mexico City and others. She was awarded Konrad M\u00e4e prize, Estonia 2014 and has been teaching at the Estonian Art Academy since 2014 and at Tartu Art School since 2016. Her works in public collections include: Kumu Art Museum, Estonia; Tartu Art Museum, Estonia; Loviisa City Collection, Finland.<\/p>\n
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Curator: Dita Birken\u0161teina<\/p>\n
Project Manager: Evelyn Raudsepp, Megija M\u012blberga<\/p>\n
Production assistant: Juhan Soomets<\/p>\n
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