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Siil
Udus
Mare Tralla’s work is often humorous, but humour is often
a veil, for investigating serious topics. These include reflections
on the condition of the post-communist era in East Europe within
the new capitalist order and how the merger of East and West impacts
on lived experience. Her practice involves digital art, video, photography,
installation and performance.
For SMOG Tralla installs a sound work Siil Udus,
which is Estonian for Hedgehog in the Fog. Siil Vdus The title of
her work recalls the celebrated Russian animation film Hedgehog
in the Fog. by Yuri Norstein made in the USSR, 1975. The film could
be interpreted on a number of levels, on the one hand as a children’s
fairy tale, but Tralla explains that was also taken to be a comment
on the political situation at the time in the USSR.
Situated within
the staircase leading to the basement of the London School of Hygiene,
the sounds of machines eerily mingle with the sounds of a person
struggling for breath, suggesting the concealed and perhaps suffocating
human presence.
Biography
Mare Tralla [aka Disgusting Girl] is an Estonia-born artist who
currently lives and works in London and Tallinn. Presently, she
is the Head of the E-media Center at the Estonian Academy of Arts.
She co-curated Private Views, a touring exhibition of Estonian
and British contemporary art and was a co-editor of an accompanying
academic book. She also designed and programmed a collective CD-rom
Virtual Revolutions. Her webwork and more info is featured
on http://www.artun.ee/~trimadu
Recent exhibitions include:- 2002 - Digital weekend, The
Red House - Centre for Culture and Debate, Sofia, Bulgaria- Breath.
Recent Video Art from Estonia, Ludwig Museum Budapest -
Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, Hungary 2001- Sybaris Baltic
Contemporary Art Biennale, Szczecin, Poland- Money, Stockholm
Kulturhuset,
Stockholm, Sweden, Double Life Identity and Transformation
in Contemporary Art, Generaly Foundation, Viena, Austria-
Media Forum, XXIII Moscow International Film Festival, Moscow2000
- Spacecraft,
Video Positive 2000, Bluecoat Display Center, Liverpool, - ArtPort
2000, Kotka City Space, Finland - Duchamp's Suitcase,
Arnolfini, Bristol, UK1999 - Interstanding 3 The Art
Museum of Estonia 1998 - Private Views, The Art Museum
of Estonia, Tallinn 1997 - MAP (Media.Art.Project),
Myyrmakitalo, Vantaa, Finland - Interstanding2, 5th
annual exhibition of Soros Center, Exhibition Hall in Rotermann
Salt Storage, The Art Museum
of Estonia, Tallinn- Beyond Technology, Lux Centre, London
1996 - Basements, Mustpeade Maja Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
- Second-hand Love Stories, Vaal Gallery Tallinn, Estonia
Links
http://www.artun.ee/~trimadu
http://artun.ee
http://e-media.artun.ee
http://www.interstanding.ee
http://www.tralladigital.co.uk
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17.12.2002 | designed and maintained by Adrian Cousins |