The Bear Pine of Timi, 2025
By Mari Prekup
76 x 68 cm
€877
Linocut, silkscreen
The work depicts the Timi Bear Tree located near Tampere, associated with bear-funeral rituals and hunting cult traditions.
Each tree carries traces of different eras and political regimes, shifts in religious meaning, and stories of disappearing ethnic fragments.
Prekup approaches these motifs through the rhythm of branches, the textures of bark, and the abstraction of linocut, asking: “What do we actually preserve when we remember?” and “Can the transmission of tradition also be exhausting or damaging?”
The work does not offer definitive answers but opens a space in which remembrance becomes both a sacred and fragile act.
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