Becoming a Shape of a Land(scape)
Maastiku(kuju)ks saamine
Outvert Gallery, Ísafjörður, Iceland
05.08-09.08.2020
In Westfjords I become to wonder, what really is a land, what is a landscape? Is it just a soil we are walking on? The terra is taken as a fixed entity, as a solid background, nicely folded curtain of the play. Grasping these enchanting layers, veins and wrinkles of the mountainous space, I sense really intensely here that Earth is a moving, shaping, breathing being. The scenery is so spectacular here, that it makes me humble, and very tiny.
I monsterize the shape of the land, I deconstruct its shape and then recreate the forms by drawing, layering memories, as a dream. Stain becomes as important mark as an intended line: „While touch offers the sensation of tactility on the surface, stain provides the seepage, leakiness, and bodily presence of the medium itself.“ (Kenner 2017:101) Colors affected by the summerlight, haziness by the clouds. Mythical animals sneak in from the Icelandic folktales. I animate the Earth as an uncertain form of becoming, constantly changing the shape, wobbling as a tongue, changing its state, never still, as a clay.
Landscape becomes an abstract shape, becomes a creature.
Britta has been staying and working in Isafjördur for a month now as an artist-in-residence
nominated by the ArtsIceland residency program and her residency is supported by Cultural
Endowment fo Estonia.
Islandi fjordides hakkan mõtlema, mis on tegelikult maa, mis on maastik? Kas see on lihtsalt pinnas, millel me kõnnime? Maad käsitletakse fikseeritud üksusena, püsiva taustana, näidendi kenasti volditud kardinana. Haarates neid mägismaastiku lummavaid kihte, sooni ja kortse, tajun siin väga intensiivselt, et Maa on liikuv, vormuv, hingav olend. Maastik on siin nii suurejooneline, et see teeb mind alandlikuks ja väga pisikeseks.
Ma muudan maa kuju koletislikuks, dekonstrueerin selle kuju ja seejärel loon vormid uuesti joonistades, kuhjates unenäolisi mälestuste kihte. Plekist saab sama oluline jälg kui kavandatud joon: „Kuigi puudutus pakub pinnal taktiilsuse tunnet, annab plekk imbumise, lekke ja keskkonnana enda kehalise kohaloleku.“ (Kenner 2017:101) Suvevalgusest mõjutatud värvid, pilvede hägusus. Islandi rahvajuttudest hiilivad sisse müütilised loomad. Ma animeerin Maad kui ebakindlat saamisvormi, mis pidevalt muudab kuju, võbeleb nagu keel, muudab oma olekut, ei jää kunagi paigale, nagu savi.