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Red Herring, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki

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selected works

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Merike Estna

'Arbitrary shorts. Merike Estna's special edition Burning Stars'

dazzle jersey, machine wash cold with similar colors, tumble dry on low heat 2017

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Merike Estna

'Arbitrary t-shirt. Merike Estna's special edition Burning Stars'

cotton jersey, machine wash cold with similar colors, tumble dry on low heat 2017

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Merike Estna Virgin Red Herring

Participatory performance, picnic on a painting.

Red Herring engages painting as a stage for human interaction. Merike Estna’s practice incorporates what she terms "performative paintings" with allusions to the digital, the nostalgic, and a romantic reverence for parts of human existence that are mutating, melting or slipping away. She serves artist-crafted cocktails, inviting the audience to drink and converse atop her paintings. Inspired by Aleksander Pushkin’s, A Feast in the Time of Plague, Estna plays with our ideas of Romantic forms of representation and social space. (Maria Arusoo, Center for Contemporary Arts, Estonia)

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