1. Hedi Jaansoo “Sweet Peas, Snapdragons and Forget Me Not”

Hedi Jaansoo “Sweet Peas, Snapdragons and Forget Me Not”

07.07.2021

Hedi Jaansoo will open her personal exhibition “Sweet Peas, Snapdragons and Forget Me Not” in Hobusepea gallery at 5pm on Thursday, July 8th, 2021. Exhibition will be open until August 2nd, 2021.
 
Hedi Jaansoo: “I have photographed half-dried cut flowers. I have depicted these with myself, with the wall, with my granny. I have glued the pieces of pictures together and photographed these with more or less fresh flowers, notes, walls and vases. I have pressed wrinkles into the clay. I have braided scarves. I’d like to be like a snapdragon, symbolizing the strength of women. I’d like to polish my nails again, but afterwards I have to take it off, and I have no time, and then these remain longer in a half-polished state. Like flowers in a vase, lasting much longer when half-dried than fresh. I’d like to say there’s no need to press yourself together, because it won’t help.
 
The beautiful nymph Paeonia once caught the eye of Apollo. However, Paeonia turned self-conscious and blushed as she noticed that Aphrodite had observed their flirtation. Aphrodite got angry and turned Paeonia into a red peony.
 
During the Victorian era, people sent each other little flower arrangements to express feelings that was considered a social taboo. Flower dictionaries were used in order to decode the talking bouquets. One of the most popular dictionaries of this kind is “Language of Flowers” (Routledge, 1884, illustrated by Kate Greenaway, a book with numerous reprints). So, during the Victorian era, one had to speak literally through flowers about things that were prohibited.
 
And they say you should not let peonies wither, because it will bring bad luck.
 
I’d like to be like a snapdragon.”
 
Hedi Jaansoo (1989) is an artist and photographer living and working in Tallinn. She has graduated from the department of contemporary art at the Estonian Art Academy (MA, 2018), department of photography at the same academy (BA, 2014) and studied in Norway, Bergen Academy of Art and Design (2021/13). She mostly works with tiny and fragile objects, flowers, uncertainties, intuitions and sensibilities. In her latest artistic practice she combines photography, textile and clay, nonfunctional accessories, unfinished thoughts and shifting decisions, yearnings and conflicting desires.
 
The exhibition is supported by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia.
The exhibitions in Hobusepea Gallery are supported by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia, Estonian Ministry of Culture and Liviko Ltd.
 
Additional information:
Hobusepea Gallery
Tel: +372 56 451 591
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E-mail: galerii@eaa.ee
Hobusepea 2, Tallinn 10133
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Hedi Jaansoo “Sweet Peas, Snapdragons and Forget Me Not”
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