What will happen if you take known buildings apart and compose these pieces back together differently? Will this new form offer recognition or total alienation? Will the houses start to bear unbeknownst meanings or even possibilities? At the center of the exhibition is the long-lived Tartu city architect Arnold Matteus (1897- 1986) and ten of his buildings, which are represented as models yet the forms of each building are reversed. This way the exhibition is about Matteus and also about the buildings that he designed, on the other hand, the model is in the spotlight as an independent work, showing the relations of the different forms of space.
Mirjam Kalamees (1997) graduated from TÜ Viljandi Culture Academy in the performing arts visual technology. She has supplemented herself in Prague’s Academy of Performing Arts DAMU and Tartu Art School as an artist-designer. She creates small forms and models and has presented them in group exhibitions.
The exhibition is funded by The Cultural Endowment Of Estonia.
Graphics: Liina Konsap
Text: Grete Tiigiste
