'Camouflage' by Daria Koltsova, part of UKUfest (Ukranian Art Festival), Tammsaare Park, Tallinn

On May 10, as part of the Ukrainian contemporary art festival UKUfest, an art intervention lasting just four hours took place in Tallinn’s Tammsaare Park. 

Ukrainian artist Daria Koltsova’s work “Camouflage” covered the statue of A.H. Tammsaare as a way of exploring the vulnerability and protective power of culture during wartime.
During the public installation, artist Daria Koltsova covered the A. H. Tammsaare statue in central Tallinn with an art object in the form of a camouflage net. 

The object was made from strips of paintings by Koltsova along with artwork donated by Estonian artists. After originally being created on canvas, the paintings were then cut into pieces and used to form a net.

The net was completed in the four weeks before the start of the Ukrainian contemporary art festival UKUfest, with the help of numerous volunteers including members of Estonia’s camouflage net weaving communities.

Thank you: Indrek Tamme, Lidia Korshikova, Olena D. from Mariupol, Kai Vallikivi, Aleksandra Volkova, Oleksii Petrenko, Masha Bakhtina, Anastassia Taylor, Alexey Pavlov, Küllike Pihkva, Iana Levman, Jana Mölder, Yelizaveta Bodnia, Tetiana Butova, Artur Poletaev, Mihkel Lember, Elisa Ritsing, Lora Bahmut, Ewa-Kaisa Plakk, and Bulavina Olga.

UKUfest continues until June 30 in venues throughout Tallinn.