“Contemplated Distances” by Johanna Adojaani, Paul Kuimeti & Krista Mölder

On Thursday, 7 August at 6 PM, we will open the joint exhibition Contemplated Distances by artists Johanna Adojaan, Paul Kuimet and Krista Mölder at the FOKU gallery. You are warmly invited!

The exhibition Contemplated Distances is a visual poetic mapping of natural, mediated and personally experienced landscapes, distances and closenesses. The common threads connecting the works of the three artists are quiet frames, sensitivity to detail, surfaces and currents underneath or behind; vibrations between the visible and the invisible, looking and observing.
In Krista Mölder's photo series, we encounter landscapes, air, birds, butterflies and airplanes again and again. On the one hand, Mölder’s frames are almost weightless, frozen in time and full of emptiness and silence, on the other hand, framed with extreme precision and under the control of the artist’s incredibly sensitive and sharp gaze. Using the possibilities and limitations of analog techniques, Paul Kuimet has created a series, a kind of static narrative, where different (emotional) states — and the shifts between them — exist as if simultaneously. In her especially delicate aesthetics, Johanna Adojaan reflects on luck and magical thinking. Although today's world is disenchanted and guided by rationality and pragmatism — or perhaps precicely because of it? — magical thinking will never disappear, the artist believes.

Johanna Adojaan (b. 1996) is inspired by abstract and magical thinking, intimate aspects of human experience, and biological and social drives of human behavior. She holds a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Fine Art Photography from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp. Adojaan works as a photographer, graphic designer, illustrator, second-hand treasure dealer and a ceramic artist.

Paul Kuimet (b. 1984) works with photography, 16 mm film, and installation comprising of these media. Although his work is often described by a technological way of seeing, his practice places emphasis on the movement and presence of the beholder in the exhibition space. Since 2013, his work has been interested in modernist forms. In his latest works he has concentrated not so much on the forms of modernism, but on its materials, such as steel and glass, and their relationship to the development of modern capitalism since the mid-nineteenth century.

Krista Mölder (b. 1972) focuses on universalized space and viewer experience or, to be more specific, on the transference of a personal (and constructed) viewer experience through which the viewer has a chance to identify with the artist’s view and frame of mind. Her melancholic series often rely on the active position of viewers, whilst her site-specific exhibitions take her interest in spatial context beyond the content of the photographs themselves.

Foku Gallery is a gallery-showroom focused on contemporary lens based art. FOKU Gallery is run by Estonian Union of Photography Artists (FOKU).

Supporters:
Cultural Endowment of Estonia, Põhjala Brewery
Partner:
Rüki Gallery
Technical support:
Karel Koplimets
Thanks to:
Artproof, Artsmart, Kristiina Hansen, Mikk Heinsoo, Irina Korzjukova, Temnikova & Kasela galerii

FOKU Gallery
Väike-Karja 10, Tallinn
Thu—Sat 12—6 PM
And by appointment
Free entrance

Additional information:
Hedi Jaansoo
hedi.jaansoo@foku.ee
+37255944447
www.foku.ee