Scene: [a] nest(s) assembled
February 17th- March 5th 2022, presented as part of the The Young Sculptor Award Exhibition 2022, organised by the Department of Sculpture and Installation of the Estonian Academy of Arts.
In 1917 Paljassaare stopped being an island; the construction of the Peter the Great's Naval Fortress in this part of Tallinn Bay formed new shorelines and filled in the straight between the island and mainland; connecting Paljassaare to Estonia as a new peninsula.
In 1917 there was a volcanic eruption on the island of Agrihan one of the Northern Mariana Island
and thus one island was born when another was transformed.
A year ago (give or take a few days) a cygnet was found dead on the shore in Paljassaare; I collected its feathers.
As I build nests with the feathers of the cygnet imagining they are for Bridled White Eyes, a rare bird found on Agrihan and hoping that some trajectory be continued I ask myself:
How much does the start of a journey have to do with the way it ends?
and / or
How much does the end of a journey have to do with the way it began?
Installation view at ARS Art Factory, Tallinn, Estonia
Materials: feathers from a cygnet found dead at Paljassaare a year ago, Bed; bedsheets, the blanket my mother had as a child; wild clay, twigs, branches and clay from Paljassaare; floor mats, sand, scaffolding, incubator lights metal, string, Incaberry flowers, orange peel, Bird's Nest Essence, pen and pencil on paper, photograph
Photographs: Taavi Piibermann