“The Language of Birds. A Sea in the Back Room” by Krista Mölder

The language of birds is not a supernatural ability, but rather the language of attention. Like in fairy tales, where someone lost in the forest receives guidance from birds, is able to move between different worlds, and therefore possesses different knowledge and access to the unknown.

Access to the unknown opens through listening, observing, and dreaming.

Krista Mölder’s new exhibition places on the same axis views from a lace-making book belonging to a farm woman from Southern Estonia and the ceiling painting of the gatehouse at the Medici Villa in Rome, because people have always wanted to see a higher sky in the back room, a bluer horizon, or read an embroidered message hidden between basting threads.

Krista Mölder (b 1972) is an Estonian artist living and working in Tallinn. She works mainly with analogue photography and with issues of visual representations.

Her work often revolves around dualities and complex interplays of various forces, aiming to capture the intricate imbalance of seemingly equilibrial situations and settings. Intrigued by the lure that these situations possess visually, Mölder aims to depict their potential and the inadvertent motion or flux that carries them.

Her recent exhibitions include: " ...and Other Shades of Light" (with Kristi Kongi) at Tallinn Art Hall (2022), "Bluebird. To the Other Me". Tartu Art House, EE (2021), "You Were a Bird", Temnikova & Kasela Gallery, Tallinn, EE (2020). Her works are included in various collections in Europe, e.g., Art Museum of Estonia, Deutsche Bank Collection, European Central Bank Art Collection. In 2022 she was an artist in residence at the WIELS Contemporary Art Centre in Brussels.

Thanks: Marika Alver, Matti Kapanen, Elisabeth Kuus, Maret Sarapu, Anna Škodenko, Annika Toots, ArtSmart, ArtProof, ColorSlider, Maajaam, Magav Magma, Rüki galerii, 3DKoda

Supporter: Cultural Endowment of Estonia