Sigrid Viir "False Vacationers Workcation Travels"
Sigrid
Viir's current exhibition False
Vacationers Workcation Travels
serves as a conceptual continuation of the artist's personal
exhibition recently held in the Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia
(EKKM) where the artist focused on the subject of blurring the
borders between work and vacation in contemporary society.
The border between work and leisure time seems to become increasingly vague – this is also clearly proved by the use of the following neologisms such as workcation (also written as workation; work+vacation), bleisure (business+leisure), or bizcation (business+vacation) in English-speaking environments. According to George Lakoff and Mark Johnson (“Metaphors We Live By”, translated into Estonian and published by Tallinn University Press, 2011), the metaphors of the resources of work and time change the way we understood the concept of leisure time – and thus, leisure time is becoming something very similar to work.
Work isn't a rabbit that will run away!
An unemployed rabbit doesn't need to turn tail!
Mountain of work
Hours for what we will
Mountains of work
An hour for what we will
A mountain for what we will
Hours of work
Mountains of will
An hour of work
What we will of work
Mountain of hours
Hours of work for mountains we will
We will work for mountains of will
We will hours of work
We will hours for what we will
Sigrid Viir (1979) is a photo and installation artist who lives and works in Tallinn. She studied cultural theory at the Estonian Institute of Humanities and graduated in photography from the Estonian Academy of Arts. As an artist, she is interested in the analysis of social constructions, the absurdity of everyday situations, the development of different roles for people (especially women), the border between the totality of work and personal leisure, and questions of visual language. Sigrid is one of the three founding members of the art collective Visible Solutions LLC. She has actively participated in exhibitions in Estonia and abroad.
Her recent exhibitions include “False Vacationers Workcation Travels'' at Draakoni Gallery (2021), “False Vacationer” at Koenig 2 Gallery in Vienna (2021) and Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia (2019), “In front of the mirror, on a day full of enthusiasm, you put your mask on too heavily, it bites your skin” with Cloe Jancis at Riga Photography Biennial (2022) and Temnikova & Kasela Gallery (2021) and "The Second Act. Found in a Translation" with Cloe Jancis at Tartu ArtHouse (2022), "Lonny the Enchanter" with Liga Spunde (2024), "The Secrets of the Leaning Building" with Kristiina Hansen at Tartu Art Museum (2024).
Graphic design: Janno Saft
Supporters: Cultural Endowment of Estonia, Viljandi Town Council
Thanks: Villem Säre, Department of Photography at the Estonian Academy of Arts, Kristiina Hansen
The border between work and leisure time seems to become increasingly vague – this is also clearly proved by the use of the following neologisms such as workcation (also written as workation; work+vacation), bleisure (business+leisure), or bizcation (business+vacation) in English-speaking environments. According to George Lakoff and Mark Johnson (“Metaphors We Live By”, translated into Estonian and published by Tallinn University Press, 2011), the metaphors of the resources of work and time change the way we understood the concept of leisure time – and thus, leisure time is becoming something very similar to work.
Work isn't a rabbit that will run away!
An unemployed rabbit doesn't need to turn tail!
Mountain of work
Hours for what we will
Mountains of work
An hour for what we will
A mountain for what we will
Hours of work
Mountains of will
An hour of work
What we will of work
Mountain of hours
Hours of work for mountains we will
We will work for mountains of will
We will hours of work
We will hours for what we will
Sigrid Viir (1979) is a photo and installation artist who lives and works in Tallinn. She studied cultural theory at the Estonian Institute of Humanities and graduated in photography from the Estonian Academy of Arts. As an artist, she is interested in the analysis of social constructions, the absurdity of everyday situations, the development of different roles for people (especially women), the border between the totality of work and personal leisure, and questions of visual language. Sigrid is one of the three founding members of the art collective Visible Solutions LLC. She has actively participated in exhibitions in Estonia and abroad.
Her recent exhibitions include “False Vacationers Workcation Travels'' at Draakoni Gallery (2021), “False Vacationer” at Koenig 2 Gallery in Vienna (2021) and Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia (2019), “In front of the mirror, on a day full of enthusiasm, you put your mask on too heavily, it bites your skin” with Cloe Jancis at Riga Photography Biennial (2022) and Temnikova & Kasela Gallery (2021) and "The Second Act. Found in a Translation" with Cloe Jancis at Tartu ArtHouse (2022), "Lonny the Enchanter" with Liga Spunde (2024), "The Secrets of the Leaning Building" with Kristiina Hansen at Tartu Art Museum (2024).
Graphic design: Janno Saft
Supporters: Cultural Endowment of Estonia, Viljandi Town Council
Thanks: Villem Säre, Department of Photography at the Estonian Academy of Arts, Kristiina Hansen