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Kairi Orgusaar, Erki Kannus<\/strong> A collaboration project between two Estonian artists, Kairi Orgusaar and Erki Kannus, \u201cSedna\u201d is a 6-part series of images inspired by Arctic mythology, specifically the force known as Sedna. The exhibit combines painting with video projection, resulting in ever-changing, living pictures. A female figure slowly moving in a dark, abstract scenery, evocative of a long winter night, aglow with Aurora Borealis – though the artists have never been in the Far North before, they\u2019ve captured the likeness of what they found it in their mind\u2019s eye.<\/p>\n Sedna, of course, has many names and many guises – some call her Arnaqquassaaq, or Sanna, Arnapkapfaaluk, Sassuma Arnaa, Nerrivik, Nuliajuk, Tak\u00e1nakaps\u00e2luk\u2026<\/p>\n Likewise, her story is told differently by various narrators, but some aspects remain constant: that of universal femininity – of the power to give birth. Rebellion, passion, anger and vengeance, oneness with nature, the will to live, dark depths of the ocean – Sedna represents all these things and more.<\/p>\n She was a girl who disobeyed her father. She refused all men and married a monster instead. She gave life to ancestors of nations, and to the creatures of the sea. She perished, drowned, her fingers chopped off by her father, yet survives as a force to be reckoned with. Like Life itself, she endures against all odds, and her strength lies in flexibility.<\/p>\n About the Authors<\/p>\n Kairi Orgusaar (b.1969) works with oil painting and sculptural glass; she is the founder and curator of the Rapla County Centre for Contemporary Art. Erki Kannus (b.1958) is known for his experimental sound \/ video installations and instruments; he also paints and works in mixed media.
\nSEDNA<\/strong>
\nAn exhibition of living pictures
\nRapla County Centre for Contemporary Art, 17.05 – 31.05.2019<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nwww.kairi.raplakunst.eu<\/p>\n
\nwww.tilinatorium.raplakunst.eu<\/p>\n