Maria Erikson Notes from Borderspace
ARS project space 16.12.2022 – 07.01.2023
Pärnu mnt 154, Tallinn
Opening reception on Thursday, December 15th 6pm
With the body of work "Notes from borderspace", Erikson explores notions of matrix, reproduction and communication in the context of materiality and time. Seeking to re-think the subject and object in printmaking, she investigates transformations of material through wear and contact, the methodology of craft and the process of artmaking, and the ephemeral nature of material itself.
Maria Erikson lives and works in Tallinn. Engagement and contact are central in her works, With the focus on materiality and material entanglement as sets of relationships, she investigates visible and non-visble relations that are produced by the gestures between them. Through wear, pressure, and re-use, Erikson explores their jointness and indifferences, bodiliness and ability inhabit shared space.
The exhibition "Notes from borderspace" is an installation that fills the entire space as one of the possible ways of exhibiting the artist's master's thesis "Borderspace" (The Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki, Finland). This body of works was first exhibited at the Project Room gallery in February 2020.
Exhibition is supported by the Estonian Artists' Association
Artist thanks: Liina Siib, Paul Rannik, Nana Schilf, Mart Saarepuu, EKA graphic art