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Tallin, 6th of June 1998 Private Views; Space Re/cognised in Contemporary Art from Estonia and Britain The Art Museum of Estonia Exhibition Hall Rotermanns Salt Storage 01 June - 28.July 1998 Ahtri str. 2, Tallinn, open Wed.-Sun. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Private Views presents new art in photography, video, film, installation and digital art from Estonia and Britain. Susan Brind, Naomi Dines, Marit Folstad, Pam Skelton, Mare Tralla, Sonja Zelic, Group F.F.F.F., Anu Juurak, Liina Siib, Eve Kiiler, Mari Koort, KIWA, Ene-Liis Semper, Annika Tonts, Internet project "S.Tüdrukud" Artists from the diverse socio-cultural environments of Eastern and Western Europe explore and re/cognise space within the transformed geography. In this exhibition space is reclaimed and occupied in provocatively different ways through personal stories, desires, histories and fantasies. In their work each artist challenges the way women have been traditionally associated with space by providing the possibilities for a critical re-appraisal of artistic practice in relation to gender across cultural spaces. The show also considers a commentary on the disparate and possibly antagonistic meanings of 'space' in the fast changing landscape of European culture where technology promises new configurations of private and public spaces while exploring the multiple meanings in the consciousness of women artists from different cultures. Private Views explodes the conventional myths which shapes the dominate ideologies of East and West Europe by disrupting those myths and ideologies which are pertinent to each society. Private Views creates spaces for exciting dialogues in which the deconstruction of space is seen as the adventure of its reconstruction. Accompanying the exhibition will be a book 'Private Views' a textual and visual dialogue on space and consciousness among contemporary women artists, art historians and cultural theorists from Estonia and Britain. Essays' by Katrin Kivimaa, Barbi Pilvre, Mare Tralla, Angela Dimitrakaki, Tiziana Terranova, Joanne P. Sharp, Pam Skelton. Mare Tralla, artist and curator www.oef.org.ee/scca/private/views.htmlCurated by Pam Skelton and Mare Tralla in collaboration with The Art Museum of Estonia. Supported by: The Ministry of Culture in Estonia; The British Council; Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London; Arts Council of England, Soros Center for Contemporary Arts, Estonia, Cultural Endowment of Estonia , Estonian Academy of Arts, Estonian Air. Contact: Pam Skelton or Mare Tralla phones: 44 (0) 171 272 2922; 44 (0)171 702 14 36 fax: 44 (0) 171 272 2922 e-mail: stephen.emmott@which.net The Art Museum of Estonia: phone: 44 93 40 ; fax: 44 2094 |