Tanja Muravskaja’s exhibition Abstract Garden is without a reference to a specific place. It is an environment cleansed of a potentially misleading context, where the image of the garden is abstract. The exhibition mixes photography and installation, through which the artist can explore difficult topics without being too obvious. Abstract Garden is a space that visually and emotionally embraces the viewer with its monochrome photographs and a skillful lighting scenario.
It is not the first time for Tanja Muravskaja to use garden as a metaphor in her art. Previously her exhibition Garden Exile: The Tuglas Home Garden Through Tanja Muravskaja’s Camera Lens (Kumu Art Museum, 2019), also entered into the same dialogue with photographs documenting the garden that had provided refuge for Elo and Friedebert Tuglas during the Soviet repression. This exhibition is almost a continuation of the idea of a garden as a refuge, first presented by her in the Kumu exhibition. The artist’s work does not offer answers, but invites the viewer to think and debate.
This is the last exhibition from Kogo Gallery’s annual exhibition and audience program “Ecology-Economy”, which focuses on the sore points of ecology and the economy, and the relationship between man and nature.
The exhibition is supported by the Estonian Cultural Endowment and the City of Tartu.
