PRESS RELEASE

SIGRID VIIR (1979) will open her personal exhibition Purpose of the Universe and the Flickering Funnel in Hobusepea gallery at 6pm on April 30, 2014.

Nothingness is the grease of all things,
we are water jerricans
by ourselves
all in a different package,
we swam a long way before landing
in cities of colourful signs,
where one had better to stand up
to see further
or to climb the pedestal
or the mountain top,
to conquer,
to be driven to success,
sportive,
sweaty tears of shame rapidly flowing against the current
along the armpits,
the invisible antiperspirant stick in the handbag,

performance is not yet everything,
primariness can be changed,
the dark horizon of vague future is not the worst thing,
one can get used to it,
as usual
circulation
create
throwing
loop

the futile purpose copulating with the universal nothingness,
the purpose of a gobbled up universe idling on the edge of a flickering funnel.

Sigrid Viir

Sigrid Viir has graduated from the department of photography at the Estonian Academy of Arts. She has held numerous solo art projects and is also an active member of the artist group Visible Solutions LLC; the group has taken part in the 9th Manifesta Biennaale in Genk, Belgium. As an artist, Viir is especially intrigued by social agreements, moral norms and rules that serve as our „daily tools“ by default, the tools that have been automatically accepted and utilized in our society in order to function. Sigrid Viir uses the elements of photography, installation and video in her artwork. In 2011 she was nominated for the Köler Art Prize; in 2012 she was awarded the annual art prize of the Cultural Endowment of Estonia.

Exhibition will be open until May 12, 2014.

Thanks to: Kristiina Hansen, Johannes Säre, Vello Viir, Toomas Thetloff, Jette and Olavi, Karel Koplimets, Reimo Võsa-Tangsoo.

Exhibition is supported by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia and Värvikeskuste Grupp PLC.

Exhibitions in Hobusepea gallery are supported by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia and Estonian Ministry of Culture.