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Margit Säde “Zone d'attente”
07.07.2021
Margit Säde will open her personal exhibition “Zone d'attente” in Hobusepea gallery at 6pm on Wednesday, June 9th, 2021. Exhibition will be open until July 5th, 2021.
Margit Säde: “Due to my work, I have commuted between Tallinn and Zürich for the last ten years. During the past three years, I have been flying on 65 days, taken off and landed 138 times in total. My flights have been delayed, cancelled, changed, overbooked. I have been flying in an almost empty airplane, with bad weather, with good weather, during the pandemic.
Flying is more sterile and more effective than daily life – and all services are within a short walk or a touch away. And yet, flying is always accompanied by a controversial feeling – there is a desire to both ignore and celebrate the control. I am flying into the sky while being safely chained to my seat. Where some people see an open sky, others witness a framed view of sea with the dimensions of a standard airplane window. While pushing my nose to the tightly closed, cold window I activate the airplane mode on my smartphone and enter the time-free zone of flying. The zone of anticipation is just like a closed circle where there is no past and the future has not started yet – there is only a present in a vacuum. It is similar to the phase in depression when the worst is over but the person has not recovered yet. This is a vague indication about the state where you
happen to be at the moment and where you are going to be soon – the moment when your life and everything you desire to do is put on hold. Just like the airplanes circling above the airport, waiting for the moment to land.”
Margit Säde is an independent curator and art worker based in Tallinn and Zurich. Switching between the roles of curator, educator, producer and artist, her main topics of interest are subjectivity, precarity and collectivity as well as language, human psyche and voice. Margit Säde studied art history at the Estonian Academy of Arts (2007, BA) and fine arts at the Zurich University of the Arts (2017, MFA). From 2017 to 2020 she worked at the Estonian Academy of Arts as the head of the contemporary art Master’s curriculum and visiting associate professor. Säde has received the Annual Award of the visual and applied arts endowment of the Estonian Cultural Endowment (2019).
Supported by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia.
The artist's gratitude to: Urs and August Säde Lehni, Anna Škodenko, Eleonore de Montesquiou, Lightmaker, Tuul and Tallinn Secondary School of Science.
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
+372 52 85 324
+372 6 276 777
E-mail: galerii@eaa.ee
Hobusepea 2, Tallinn 10133
Tel: +372 56 451 591
+372 52 85 324
+372 6 276 777
E-mail: galerii@eaa.ee
Hobusepea 2, Tallinn 10133
Wed‒Mon 12.00‒18.00
