{"id":4949,"date":"2024-07-26T12:31:12","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T09:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/galerii.eaa.ee\/vabaduse\/?p=4949"},"modified":"2024-12-08T16:47:41","modified_gmt":"2024-12-08T14:47:41","slug":"kelli-valk-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galerii.eaa.ee\/vabaduse\/?p=4949&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"KELLI VALK. Read My Eyes

08.11.\u201304.12.2024<\/span><\/h3>"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Friday, November 8, at 5 p.m., the graphic artist Kelli Valk will open her solo exhibition \u201cRead My Eyes\u201d at the Vabaduse Gallery. The exhibition will remain open until December 4, 2024.<\/span>
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At the exhibition, Kelli Valk displays a selection of graphic works from 2024, which are strongly impelled by the continued war in Ukraine. The artist feels the need to ask \u201cWhy?\u201d and \u201cWho should give the answers?\u201d But when one tries to rationalise the discord of our anxious world, only confusion echoes back. To think there\u2019s still such destruction happening in our time\u2026 Fear, sorrow, despair seep into one\u2019s eyes.<\/span><\/p>\n

With these printed works we encounter the abstract and translucent layers that are characteristic of Kelli Valk\u2019s art, wherein certain meaningful details are sometimes planted or merged. Instead of the \u201cpersonal memory voyages\u201d or \u201cassociative inner perceptions\u201d, which are familiar from Valk\u2019s previous work, the artist now wishes to dedicate herself with empathy and compassion to other travellers: those seeking refuge, families who have left their homes, lost children and those broken by the storm. In unison, this collection of works embodies a single wordless prayer for those people. Although the general tone here is worrisome, there are also more hopeful notes apparent. The guardian angels will come and new life will ensue. The necessity to look toward the future prevails.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kelli Valk: \u201cEveryone is trying to find their place in this changed world. In our hearts we are little hurt children, who have experienced loss, grief, yearning, loneliness, belittlement. We live like travellers, one day at a time. From these travellers communities are formed. The brief, heartwarming conversations between the travellers are what keep us alive.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Kelli Valk <\/b>(b. 1952) studied printmaking at the Estonian Academy of Arts (then State Art Institute of the Estonian SSR), graduating in 1978. Since then she has actively participated in both solo shows and many group exhibitions both in Estonia and abroad. Her work in both printmaking and book illustration has received numerous accolades, and her artworks have been included in the collections of several international museums. Kelli Valk has also worked as artistic editor at the Estonian Encyclopaedia Publishers and has been a longtime faculty member at the Estonian Academy of Arts. Valk has been a member of the Estonian Printmakers Association and the Estonian Artists\u2019 Association since 1992.<\/span><\/p>\n

The exhibition is supported by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Image: Valk, Kelli. Read My Eyes (fragment). Ofset lithography, author’s technique. 2024<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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