Breadcrumb
Exhibition “Down the Rabbit-hole”
Victoria Holdt & Kristen Rästas
15.11.2023-15.01.2024
@post-gallery.online
“But you know, sometimes I feel that I just want to paint colourful pictures and not even think about what it means.”
23.9.20
“Down the Rabbit-hole” is a joint web-based exhibition by artists Victoria Holdt and Kristen Rästas. The basis of the exhibition are fragments of a correspondence between the two artists: thoughts of isolation and the unknown, self-realisation and ambition, form a dialogue which leads up to two individual escapistic realms of audiovisual artwork:
Jump down the rabbit-hole!
Victoria Holdt (*1992) is a Swiss artist who lives and works in Basel. She is interested in exploring the interplay between the body, materials, media, and various systems and is currently working on projects that aim to seamlessly connect the realms of video and sculpture. In her work, human behavior and emotions, including language and wordplay, play a significant role. She often incorporates a touch of irony or humor, viewing them as powerful tools to disrupt established relations and reshape realities. In the artwork “Muscle Memory” (2023) found footage video collages, for example, of Judy Garland and Britney Spears, colliding with images of turtles hatching, are originally projected onto organic forms crafted from animal glue, also known as hide glue. In the given specifically reshaped version of this art installation, the visitor can experience it in a 360 degree digital space.
Kristen Rästas (*1992) is an Estonian artist based in Berlin. Rästas is an interdisciplinary artist whose recent work incorporates video, conceptualism, virtual reality, and mixed media sculpture. Classical landscape imagery inspires his art projects, which the artist attempts to represent through digital technologies, creating artificial environments that create connections between contemporary human alienation and different explorable realities. In the current exhibition he is exhibiting his VR 3D-video artwork titled “Look up. Look up in the sky” (2023), which places the viewer onto an ambient summer landscape which symbolises times of innocence. There, an audiovisual narrative unfolds, questioning time, space and personal wellbeing.
post-gallery.online: Kelli Gedvil, Ian Simon Märjama, Kristen Rästas
Sound design for Kristen Rästas: Mataya Waldenberg
Supported by: the Cultural Endowment of Estonia
Kristen Rästas’s VR work funded by:
the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media in the program NEUSTART KULTUR Module D – Digital Mediation Formats
This project is a pavilion of the 6th edition of The Wrong Biennale
