The language of birds is not a supernatural ability, but rather the language of attention. Like in fairy tales, where someone lost in the forest receives guidance from birds, is able to move between different worlds, and therefore possesses different knowledge and access to the unknown.
Access to the unknown opens through listening, observing, and dreaming.
Krista Mölder’s new exhibition places on the same axis views from a lace-making book belonging to a farm woman from Southern Estonia and the ceiling painting of the gatehouse at the Medici Villa in Rome, because people have always wanted to see a higher sky in the back room, a bluer horizon, or read an embroidered message hidden between basting threads.
At the center of Mölder’s work are the qualities inherent to the photographic medium — light, time, and the possibility of something emerging. She has also transformed the technical and formal aspects of photography into a conceptual point of departure. Her photographs and videos are filled with potential — contours of perspectives and outlines of possibilities. Mölder stages situations that are never entirely complete, focusing on what remains outside the frame or beside it, and on the interaction that arises between the individual parts of the work.
Krista Mölder was nominated for the Köler Prize in 2016 and received the Visual and Applied Art Endowment Award of the Estonian Cultural Endowment in 2020. Her most significant recent exhibitions include “And Other Shades of Light” (2022) at Tallinn Art Hall, “Bluebird. To the Other Self” (2021) at Tartu Art House, “You Were a Bird” (2020) at Temnikova & Kasela Gallery, and “Getting Lost” (2017) at KanZan Gallery in Tokyo.
Thanks: Marika Alver, Elisabeth Kuus, Maret Sarapu, Anna Škodenko, Annika Toots
ArtSmart, ArtProof, ColorSlider, Maajaam, Magav Magma, 3DKoda, Rüki galerii
Supporters: Cultural Endowment of Estonia, Rüki Gallery
