Flo Kasearu at Isle of Dole, Daugava

Flo Kasearu is included in the exhibition ‘Heads of Stone II, Daugava,’ curated by Madara Peiseniece, Daugava River Museum, Island of Dole, Latvia.

On view until 29 November. 

This outdoor contemporary art exhibition brings together original and previously displayed works by Kaspars Groševs, Anda Lāce, Madara Peiseniece, Ojārs Pētersons, Līva Rutmane, and Flo Kasearu.

The group of works entitled ‘Uprising’ are built 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, Flo’s video and accompanying works – drawings and framed 3D models – reflect on the atmosphere prevailing under these circumstances in Estonia. The artist contemplates the heightened levels of paranoia in the media, calls for the increase in funding of the Department of Defence during elections, resumed faith in NATO membership, and so on.

Photo by Kristīne Madjare.

Flo Kasearu 
Uprising, 2015
Diasec
30x42 cm