Underground Hairdresser, 2025
Framed.
Aquatint, etching.
The buildings and wastelands of Lasnamäe—its sprawling panel houses, worn footpaths and large puddles—form an important childhood landscape for Benno, a place where many dreams began. It is a kind of utopian city where new possibilities grow out of ugliness: a tree emerges from the mud, one can swim in puddles in dreams, and piles of snow transform into Alpine landscapes.
In this series the artist follows historical references from graphic art, particularly the uncanny, still-life-like views and picture-within-picture surreal spatial worlds found in the works of Urmas Ploomipuu.
The series combines new imagery (the photographs used in the works were recently taken by the artist) with a longing for an earlier world (the landscape and architecture remain the same as forty years ago), new technical approaches (laser engraving) with traditional printmaking (etching and aquatint), and real space with dreamlike environments. These symbioses shape both the process and the imagery of the series “In Dreams I See the Housing Estate.”
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