washed up on the shore / an egg is a single cell
‘washed up on the shore / an egg is a single cell’ was an exhibition in two parts. The first part of the exhibition was held at Uus Rada from August 19th – 21st and the second part of the exhibition took place on the shore of Paljassaare (North Tallinn) on the 7th of September 2022.
Reflecting on her previous work and other objects. Sophie Durand kept questioning how much the (final) installation/house/project [now] had to do with its initial catalyst – finding a dead cygnet on the shore of the Paljassaare area of North Tallinn. The work had become its own entity. However, before the artist could grasp what it was, it was time to dismantle the work.
Again the material, though now fragmented, holds potential to be re-examined and re-assembled. The installation/house/project was an attempt to approach narrative, a space where one place attempted to approach (or rather evoke) another through the handling of material.
How can a narrative be approached anew?
What is recycled?
What is returned?
In the first part of the exhibition the remaining traces of the previous installation were presented as a series of monochrome paintings. During the second part, guests were invited to listen to recollections from the production narrative and return material elements to the place where they were collected. A QR code with a link to this audio can be found at 59.4753742, 24.7213686.
The exhibition project muses on the relationships between beginnings and end through (re)situating artworks as entities that hold temporal and transformational potential.
