YOU KNOW YOU'VE BECOME PART OF THE VIEW, together with Kristina Õllek
12.10–30.10.2017, Hobusepea gallery, Tallinn.
Intro for You Know You’ve Become Part of the View (UV print on acrylic, 205 x 125 cm, 2 transparent plexiglass displays)
Humidifier (Readymade)
Intro for You Know You’ve Become Part of the View (Video, loop)
Displacers (UV print on acrylic, thermoformed (hand-made), transparent plexiglass displays, series of 9 forms, dimensions variable)
You Know You’ve Become Part of the View is a joint exhibition by Kristina Õllek and Kert Viiart, which is a continuation to Õllek’s previous exhibition project When You Have the Object Itself in Front of Your Eyes and their collaborative project Exhibit_onscroll on Instagram, which both engaged with the questions of image representation and dematerialisation within observing the format of an exhibition, and its influence on the viewer and contemporary art position in the digital age.
The new exhibition at Hobusepea gallery carries on with previous subjects and complement these through the contemporary context of archeology and museology by researching the relationship between the exhibited objects and their display elements as well the representative 3D virtual reality.
Taken out of the material flow,
a thing becomes the representation of itself.
Being present without its sense.
Though it’s there and innumerable eyes see it.
It’s there, but out of the reach for touch,
isolated in its own presentation.
Yet it’s touched by something else,
a form that grasps it gently,
blends in without asking for permission.
You see it. It’s happening in front of your eyes,
and know that it will also happen not only here,
but there as well.
It all merges together,
and becomes part of the view.
