Flo Kasearu and Krista Mölder at Foto Tallinn 2024
Temnikova & Kasela Gallery is thrilled to present the works of Flo Kasearu and Krista Mölder at Foto Tallinn 2024, taking place at Kai Art Center from September 6th to 8th.
Flo Kasearu (EE, b. 1985) is a Tallinn-based artist whose practice spans video, drawing, painting, installation, and performance. She studied Painting and Photography at the Estonian Academy of Arts and Multimedia at Universität der Künste Berlin. Working directly with various social processes—and with a characteristic sense of irony—Kasearu’s previous works have addressed tradition, national identity, the academic environment of art schools, as well as local political and ideological contexts.
The Violence Grows in Silence series featured in Kasearu’s 2021 solo exhibition, Cut out of Life, at Tallinn Art Hall. Abstracting and recontextualising everyday objects, the artist playfully transforms their meaning to formulate a social critique. Embodying the sense of neglect and stunted growth that stems from constant maltreatment, the project aspires to illustrate the suffering of women facing domestic violence.
Monument of the Living Artist is a self-portrait bust from 2012, which depicts the artist wearing a shower cap. A missing nose inspires comparisons with ancient Greek and Roman sculptures, lending the work a superficial timelessness. In fact, this self-portrait was never made to conserve the blooming beauty of the young artist forever; deliberately filled with plant seeds, it was instead intended to be subverted and changed. Installed outdoors at Flo Kasearu’s House Museum for the past 7 years, the work has also been affected by both local weather conditions and vandalism.
Krista Mölder (EE, b. 1972) is an artist based in Tallinn, where she has lectured at the Academy of Arts since 2003. She is herself an MA graduate of Photography from the Estonian Academy of Arts and holds a further MA in Photography Studies from London’s University of Westminster. Mölder’s interest in the relationship between people and space is an important part of her work: her melancholic series often rely on the active position of viewers, whilst her site-specific exhibitions take her interest in spatial context beyond the content of the photographs themselves.
A Temporary Thing sees Mölder call stasis into question, offering room for what is hidden underneath. A photograph disrupts the temporary, capturing a passing moment as a static image: a grimace which has not yet managed to form a smile, a solidified wave undulating towards the horizon, or the moment that a runner’s feet float above the ground. In this series, the static starts to flicker, and the tension between motion and immobility – the visible and the invisible – is highlighted.
