People’s perceptions differ. Interpreting the surroundings through metaphors gives us hints about the artist’s perspectives. While realising their ideas and fantasies, they are fully immersed, not caring about pleasing everyone, constantly searching, without rules or recipes, failing and finding, each in their own way. How and whether the audience understands their work at all is unclear. Still, the artist grows thanks to their audience, and vice versa.
Together we create new perspectives on the world and ask questions of those who hear and see, and much more.
Erika Pedak (b. 1948) is a textile artist (graduated from the State Art Institute in 1985) and a textile historian (graduated from Tartu University in 2007). The artist actively participates in exhibitions. Pedak has been selected twice as a Textile Artist of the Year by the Estonian Textile Artists’ Association. She started her art career knitting tapestries and has long practised her author’s technique while using a wide variety of materials. Since moving to the island of Saaremaa, Erika Pedak has successfully practised wet felting technique. The artist’s son Tambet also finds inspiration in the technique.
Tambet Pedak (b. 1973) is an interior architect (graduated from the Estonian Academy of Arts in 2000). He has worked in the ARS Project and since 2004 he has run his company, Luuk. Tambet Pedak has designed various interiors both in public space and for private properties (including several private houses), on his own and in collaboration with other interior architects. He is currently living and working on his family’s farm in Saaremaa, Estonia.
The exhibition is being supported by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia.
