Anna Škodenko’s solo exhibition “Slippery slope”

On Friday, 8th of August at 6 pm, Anna Škodenko’s solo exhibition “Slippery slope” will open at Vaal Gallery. The exhibition will remain open until 6th of September. 

“Slippery slope” brings together fictional memories, family histories, geopolitics, and disco balls. The exhibition explores the unreliability of memory and how it constantly reshapes itself — the ways in which recollections adapt to one's current worldview, values, and self-image.
 
The starting point for the exhibition was Škodenko’s interest in how people tend to fill memory gaps and construct personalized versions of the past — with the phenomenon of confabulation at its core. The deeper the artist delved into the subject, the more closely intertwined with it the questions of spatial perception, movement, and belonging.
 
For Škodenko, the fictitious nature of memory relates above all to places she will likely never return to. To create the new works, she mainly used her own previous works and found objects, altering them to suit the exhibition’s narrative. Creating and shaping the images allow her to travel in time and space — and visit places that she can no longer return in real life.
 
Anna Škodenko (b 1986) graduated from the Painting Department of the Estonian Academy of Arts in 2009. During her studies, she attended Chelsea College of Art in the UK and later continued at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Moscow. In 2017, she completed Master’s program in Painting at the Glasgow School of Art.

Her practice moves along the border between the poetic and the everyday, using drawing, painting, text, sound, and found objects to explore transformation, memory, and the moments when the familiar begins to dissolve. Škodenko has received the Eduard Wiiralt Prize (2016), the Köler Prize Grand Prix (2018), and the Estonian Cultural Endowment Annual Award (2024). In 2019, she was an artist-in-residence at WIELS Contemporary Art Centre in Brussels.

The exhibition is supported by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia.

Additional information:
Vaal Gallery
Tel: +372 5302 8766 
E-mail: galerii@vaal.ee
Telliskivi 60A/5, Tallinn
Tue–Fri 12.00–18.00
Sat 12.00–16.00